Omo-Oba Adenrele Ademola
Princess Adenrele Ademola or Omo-Oba Adenrele Ademola (born 1916) was a Nigerian princess and nurse. She trained as a nurse in London in the 1930s, and remained working there through World War II. She was the subject of a film, Nurse Ademola, made by the Colonial Film Unit and now considered lost.
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[edit]- “Everyone was very kind to me.”
- NHS Guy's and St Thomas Tuesday 8 November 2022.Unsung Nigerian princess nurse inspires today’s nursesretrieved November 2022
Quotes about Omo-Oba Adenrele Ademola
[edit]- “Princess Ademola is an historical role model for anyone entering the nursing profession and those who have committed their working lives to caring for others.”
- “Princess Ademola was obviously a strong-minded person. I think any Black woman who came to England at that time, and was successful, should be recognised and applauded. They showed such bravery. She was beautiful, she was a royal, so could perhaps have been anything she wanted to be, but she chose to be a nurse."
- NHS Guy's and St Thomas Tuesday 8 November 2022.Unsung Nigerian princess nurse inspires today’s nursesretrieved November 2022.
- ‘Nurse Ademola’ played an important part in this as a uniquely feminine perspective. It ‘depicted an African nurse at various phases of training at one of the great London hospitals’, it was said to have inspired many African viewers at its screenings across West Africa.
- Ademola's patients apparently called her "fairy" as a term of endearment. "Everyone was very kind to me", she told journalists at the time.
- Maya Bello-Taylor (Oct 1, 2023) Princess Ademola - the African Princess who served as a nurse during wartime BritainRetrieved Jan 19 2025
