Isaac Fadoyebo

Isaac Fadoyebo (5 December 1925 – 9 November 2012) was a Nigerian soldier who served in the British Royal West African Frontier Force during Britain's World War II campaign in Asia.

Early life Fadoyebo was born on 5 December 1925 in Emure-Ile village, Ondo state in south west Nigeria.

In 1942, Fadoyebo voluntarily joined the British Army at the age of 16, an act which he characterised in his writings as "youthful exuberance". In 1943, he visited India while travelling to Burma and was deployed to police an Indian Independence rally addressed by Mahatma Gandhi. Fadoyebo received his publishing break when in 1989, on the 50th anniversary of the Second World War, the BBC's Africa Service planned a series of programmes seeking first-hand accounts of Africans who participated in the war. Fadoyebo submitted the only copy of his typed manuscript which was received with excitement by the BBC and was the basis for a dramatised BBC documentary titled I remember Burma. The documentary picturing Fadoyebo's extraordinary life won the CINE Golden Eagle Award in 2012.

In 2014, Barnaby Phillips wrote a book titled Another Man's War - The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten African Army which was published by Oneworld Publications.