Between Chicago and Ibadan

There seems to be interesting coicidences between Chicago in the United States and Ibadan city in Nigeria Chicago is the capital city of mid west America and Ibadan, the political capital of south west Nigeria.

Chicago was crucial to the development of jazz music in the United States and Ibadan, highlife music in Nigeria. Interestingly, one of the highlife greats in Ibadan was known as Roy Chicago.Frank ~Lloyd Wright and Demas Nwoko in Chicago and Ibadan, respectively, have both been described as defining entirely new architectural identity for their countries.

Chicago is the home of the skyscrapers and Ibadan is the Nigerian home of the Cocoa House. In Chicago, you have the Loyola University, while in Ibadan you have the Loyola College.Chicago and Ibadan have the newspaper houses, the Chicago Tribune, and the publishers of the Tribune Group of newspapers respectively and they are both the largest newspaper houses in Chicago and Ibadan.In Chicago, you have Enrico Fermi, credited with winning the Second World War for the U.S. President Harry S. Truman and relatedly in Ibadan, you have Obafemi Awolowo described as the Chief Strategist of the Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, during the Nigerian Civil War.

In Chicago, you have Oprah Winfrey, the most powerful American woman and in Ibadan we have Folake Solanke described as Nigeria's most powerful woman. They were both born on the 29th day of the month. Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954, and Solanke on 29th March, 1932. They have both been associated with broadcasting. They are both pioneers, Winfrey, first African-American woman billionaire and Folake Solanke, Nigerian's first lady Senior Advocate of Nigeria and first non-Caucasian president of Zonta International (with headquarters in Chicago).

James Abram Garfield, classicist, lawyer and president of the United States, who was assissinated, got his nomination as presidential candidate in Chicago and relatedly, James Ajibola Ige, classicist, lawyer and one time Nigerian presidential aspirant, also assassinated, lost his nomination for post of presidential candidate in Ibadan.