Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi Wanda aka fi sani da Ola Rotimi an haife shi a ranar 13 ga watan ogusta shekarar 1938. Yana daya daga cikin manyan marubutan Nigeria. Rotimi dane ga Samuel Gladstone Enitan Rotimi inginiya ne. Da kuma Dorcas Adole Oruena Addo. An haife shi a Sapele Nigeria. Yayi makarantar St. Cyprian's school a patakol daga 1944 zuwa 1949. Kuma yayi Methodist Boys High School a jihar legas. Kafin ya samu tafiya amurka a shekarar 1959 domin yin karatu a jamiar Boston. Inda ya karanci Fine Art. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/oct/17/guardianobituaries1 https://web.archive.org/web/20110724191417/http://blogs.library.auckland.ac.nz/arts/archive/2011/02/03/Dictionary-of-Literary-Biography-Complete-Online.aspx "Ola Rotimi", in Hans M. Zell, Carol Bundy, Virginia Coulon, A New Reader's Guide to African Literature, Heinemann Educational Books, 1983, p. 474.