{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Short description|Area in Lagos Island}} 300px|thumb|Port at Olowogbowo '''Olowogbowo''' is an area in the west of Lagos Island in Lagos, also known as '''Apongbon'''. The area is in the central business district.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/romance/2007/nov/13/romance-13-11-2007-001.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria |title=Our 50 years of marital bliss – Mr & Mrs Alapafuja |author=Susan Nwanganga Agwu |date=November 13, 2007 |newspaper=The Sun |access-date=2009-11-01}}</ref> The community was founded after 1851, when the Yoruba returnees and their descendants who had been set ashore in Sierra Leone returned in successive waves to Lagos, and were granted land to settle in the Olowogbowo and Breadfruit areas of the island.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ngex.com/nigeria/places/states/lagos.htm |title=Lagos State, Nigeria |publisher=NgEX! |access-date=2009-11-01}}</ref>
The name Apongbon is a garbled version of the Yoruba phrase ''a l'agbon pipon'' ("man with the red beard"), a name given to William McCoskry, acting governor of the newly established Colony of Lagos in 1861.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://64.94.90.26/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5414230-146/story.csp |journal=Next (Nigeria) |access-date=2011-05-24 |title=Lost in translation |first=Gbenga |last=Olorunpomi |date=May 24, 2009 |archive-date=10 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810210420/http://64.94.90.26/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5414230-146/story.csp |url-status=dead }}</ref> Jùjú music originated in the Olowogbowo area in the 1920s, when area boys used to gather in a motor mechanic workshop to drink and make music. Tunde King was the leader of this group, generally considered the founder of the style.<ref>{{cite journal |jstor=931274 |title=A diachronic study of change in Juju music |author=Afolabi Alaja-Browne |journal=Popular Music |year=1989 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=231–242}}</ref>
Other well-known people from the area include
* G.B.A. Coker, Former Supreme Court Justice of Nigeria and Olori Eyo Adimu. * F.C.O. Coker, First Nigerian Municipal Treasurer and the First President of ICAN. * Muiz Banire, Senior Advocate of Nigeria and National Legal Adviser of APC<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/214715-apc-legal-adviser-accused-of-bribing-judge-offers-to-step-aside.html |title=APC legal adviser accused of bribing judge offers to 'step aside' |access-date=2023-03-02 |newspaper=Premium Times}}</ref> * H. O. Davies, a Nigerian nationalist, lawyer, journalist, trade union organizer, thought leader, international statesman and politician during the nation's movement towards independence in 1960 and afterward. * Christopher Oluwole Rotimi, a Nigerian Army officer, diplomat and politician * Musiliu Smith, an Inspector General of Police of Nigeria * Munirudeen Adekunle Muse, member of the Senate for Lagos Central
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Category:Populated coastal places in Lagos State Category:Communities in Yorubaland Category:Lagos Island