Benjamin Adesanya Maja Adekunle (an haife shi a ranar 26 ga watan Yuni shekarar 1936 ya mutu a ranar 13 ga watan Satumba shekara ta 2014) ya kasance Birgediya na Sojan Nijeriya kuma kwamandan Yakin Basasa An haifi Adekunle a garin Kaduna . Mahaifinsa dan asalin Ogbomosho ne, yayin da mahaifiyarsa ‘yar kabilar Bachama ce . Ya yi karatun sakandare a kwalejin gwamnati, Okene (wanda a yanzu ake kira Abdul Aziz Atta Memorial College, Okene, a cikin jihar Kogi ta yanzu ). Ya shiga aikin sojan Najeriya a shekarar 1958 jim kadan bayan kammala jarabawar satifiket din sa. Ya zama zabenben soja, sa'an nan kuma ya shiga Royal Military Academy Sandhurst a Birtaniya, da British Army's, shine farkon jami'in shiga academy. An nada shi 2nd Lieutenant a ranar 15 ga watan Disamba, shekara ta 1960. amatsayin sa platoonkwamandan, ya yi aiki a Kasai Province da Congo da kuma 1st bataliya, Sarauniyar Own Najeriya rajimanti a lokacin da ya fara ONUC MDD kiyaye zaman lafiya yawon shakatawa na wajibi. A cikin shekarar 1962, Laftanar Adekunle ya zama Mataimakin-de-Camp ga gwamnan yankin gabas, Sir Akanu Ibiam .