Online search engine Google is honouring the late Nigerian musician Oliver de Coque with a striking image, on what would have been his 74th birthday.
BBC News Pidgin have compiled four facts you may not have known about the guitar great:
- His birth name was Oliver Sunday Akanite
- Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, the traditional ruler of Oyo, gave him the “king of highlife” moniker
- He started his career at the age of 17, and said he first learnt guitar from Congolese Piccolo
- He featured on Prince Nico Mbarga’s classic album Sweet Mother
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