G. GODWIN OYEWOLE

First and foremost, I was born in Lagos, Nigeria. I grew up in the city of Lagos. I am now a Criminal Defense Attorney. However, because of my interest in African and Caribbean music, I also have an active Entertainment Law practice, and I represent quite a few African and Caribbean artists and writers. My law office is currently at 601 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in Washington DC. In Nigeria, I attended the Methodist Boys High School in Lagos through the sixth form, after which I came to the US. I have an undergraduate degree in Microbiology from the State University of New York at New Paltz, NY. After a period of graduate work in Microbiology at the University of Chicago, I received an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago. Before going to law school, I obtained a doctor's degree in Communications from the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Both my JD and LL.M. degrees are from Georgetown University Law School in Washington, DC.

Currently residing in the Washington, DC area, I have lived in many parts of the US, and I have been a host of African and Caribbean music programs and General Manager of five radio stations with different programming formats ranging from Western Classical music to Jazz in several cites in the US, including Chicago, New York, and Washington DC. However, my greatest challenge in radio is setting up WDCU-FM at the University of the District of Columbia, in Washington, DC, and serving as the first General Manager for the station for its first five years. My record collection includes several forms of Western Classical music, Jazz, African Music, Caribbean music, and the spoken words. I prize my Mozart collection as much as I prize my Kitchener, Sparrow, Duke, Sunny Ade, I.K. Dairo, Tabuley, Ramblers, and E.T. Mensah collections. My passion for justice, rhythm, and freedom of expression has most naturally led me to devote my non-waking hours to the dreamings and studies of the soul that have created what some people have described as my alter-persona: Dr., or Mr., Calypso.

According to my friend, Albert Z. Lewis who is himself a lawyer: "From his law office high atop the U.S. Capitol, and a few blocks away from the White House, Mr. Calypso schemes and dreams of the day in which the cacophony of consumer capitalism will be punctured and moderated by calypso and soca rhythms, and other sweet music of the soul, transforming the frustration and anger of technology and money into a path for liberation and love between people on the same city block, the same city, the same continent, same hemisphere, same planet!"