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O'levels exam. Akinrinade got married in 1950, to T.A. Akinrinade, a tobacco company executive and was a housewife for some period. In 1957, she took courses in
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to a family of four children, Akinrinade was the only girl and last child of her parents. She lost her parents at a young age and an elder brother took care of funding her primary education. She did not attend secondary school but through self-tutorship she passed her
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She started her political career in 1970, when she became a councillor in Iseyin, she was in that position for seven years. In 1977, Akinrinade won election to the
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local tobacco farmers, Akinrinade played an important part in orchestrating a peace agreement. Due to her role in the crisis, the
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