Linda Oladunni was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, the country’s
largest city. In 1989 she immigrated to London, where she developed
several months of experience in working in a large office context. She
moved from London to Hyattsville, Maryland, where she ran a daycare
center after working at a local gas station. She never stopped trying to
educate herself and move up. Oladunni took business classes at John Jay
University in New York City. She later met Dr. Joseph Oladunni. The
couple moved to Rio Grand Valley, Texas, where they raised three
children and Oladunni opened her own gas station business.
Nigeria
has a long and rich history full of many different kingdoms and tribal
states that have lived in the country over thousands of years. Its
modern government is set up as a federal constitutional republic and a
democratic secular state. Linda Oladunni was born in the country’s
largest city, Lagos. Abuja is Nigeria’s capital. After decades of
British colonial rule beginning in the 19th century, Nigeria officially
declared its independence in 1960. The original government was weak and
the country plunged into civil war from 1967 to 1970. Ever since then,
the country has alternated between various democratically-elected
civilian governments and autocratic military regimes. Linda Oladunni was
extremely proud of her country when it achieved a stable democracy in
1999 and holding its first fair and free presidential elections in 2011.
Linda Oladunni never forgot her home country and her past, but she never stopped looking to the future, either.
