Kitoye Ajasa

**Sir Kitoye Ajasa** Listen  OBE (wanda kuma aka rubuta **Kitoyi**; 10, Agusta 1866–1937) lauyan Najeriya ne kuma dan majalisa a' lokacin mulkin mallaka. Ya kasance mai ra'ayin mazan jiya, da kuma ya yi aiki tare da hukumomin mulkin mallaka. Ya yi tunanin cewa ci gaba zai 'yiwu ne kawai idan 'yan Afirka suka rungumi ra'ayoyi da cibiyoyi na Turai. Ajasa ya kasance daya daga cikin shugabannin kungiyar jama'a, kuma shine ya kafa jaridar 'yan mazan jiya mai suna da *Nigerian Pioneer*. Shi ne dan Najeriya na farko da aka yi wa jaki.

## Kuruciya
Kitoye Ajasa ya kasance daga reshen al’ummar Saro da suka yi hijira daga Ajase a Dahomey zuwa Legas. An haifi mahaifinsa, Thomas Benjamin Macaulay a Dahomey, aka kai shi bauta sannan aka sake shi a Saliyo. Kitoye Ajasa asalin sunan shi Edmund Macaulay.An haife shi a Legas ranar 10 ga Agusta 1866. Ya yi karatu a CMS Grammar School, Legas. Daga nan ya koma Ingila inda ya halarci Kwalejin Dulwich, makarantar gwamnati, sannan ya karanci shari'a a Inner Temple Inn of Court. An kira shi mashaya a 1893.. Ya canza sunansa zuwa Kitoye Ajasa bayan ya shafe shekaru goma sha biyu a Landan. Ya koma Legas, inda ya fara aikin shari’a. Ya auri Lucretia Olayinka Moore, wata gimbiya Egba.

## Shekarun farko

Kitoye Ajasa ya kasance daga reshen al’ummar Saro da suka yi hijira daga Ajase a Dahomey zuwa Legas. An haifi mahaifinsa, Thomas Benjamin Macaulay a Dahomey, aka kai shi bauta sannan aka sake shi a Saliyo. Kitoye Ajasa asalin sunan shi Edmund Macaulay. An haife shi a Legas ranar 10 ga Agusta 1866. Ya yi karatu a CMS Grammar School, Legas.  Daga nan ya koma Ingila inda ya halarci Kwalejin Dulwich, makarantar gwamnati, sannan ya karanci shari'a a Inner Temple Inn of Court. An kira shi mashaya a 1893.. Ya canza sunansa zuwa Kitoye Ajasa bayan ya shafe shekaru goma sha biyu a Landan. Ya koma Legas, inda ya fara aikin shari’a. Ya auri Lucretia Olayinka Moore, wata gimbiya Egba.

Ajasa yana ɗaya daga cikin manyan membobi na Ƙungiyar Jama'a wanda John Randle ya kafa a 1908 (1855-1928). Sauran sune Orisadipe Obasa (1863–1940), Richard Akinwande Savage (1874–1935) da Adeyemo Alakija (1884–1952). Ko da yake ƙungiyar jama'a tana ƙarƙashin ikon maza masu ra'ayin mazan jiya, ta jawo hankalin wasu ƙwararru masu ra'ayoyin ci gaba irin su Ernest Ikoli (1893-1960), ɗan jarida kuma wanda ya kafa Ƙungiyar Matasan Najeriya. Ƙungiyar jama'a, wadda ke goyon bayan gabatar da gyare-gyare a hankali, ta yi adawa da jam'iyyar National Democratic Party (NNDP) mai kishin kasa da Herbert Macaulay ya kafa a 1922. Ƙungiyar Jama'a ta rushe a cikin 1928 bayan mutuwar Randle.

Ajasa ya kafa Majagaba na Najeriya a cikin 1914 a matsayin madadin Rikodi na mako-mako na John Payne Jackson (1848-1915). Domin an san shi majibincin Lugard ne, ana kyautata zaton gwamnati ce ta dauki nauyin wannan takarda. Jaridar gaba daya tana goyon bayan matakan gwamnati da adawa da mutane da kungiyoyin  da gwamnati ba ta so. Ba ta shiga cikin maganganun adawa da gwamnati kamar yadda wasu takardu suka yi a lokacin, kuma yawancin mutanen Legas sun ƙi yarda da shi. Ajasa ya rubuta a cikin 1923 cewa takardarsa ta kasance "domin tafsiri sosai kuma daidai gwargwado ga jama'a da jama'a ga gwamnati".

Kitoye Ajasa ya zama alkalin babbar kotun Legas. An nada shi Jami'in Tsarin Mulkin Biritaniya a cikin Girmama Maulidin 1924 kuma an yi shi jarumi a cikin Girmama Maulidin 1928. Shi ne dan Najeriya na farko da aka yi wa jaki. Ajasa ya kasance dan majalisa har zuwa 1933. Ya rasu a shekara ta 1937. Majagaba na Najeriya ya rufe bayan mutuwarsa. 'Ya'yansa sun hada da Oyinkan mai kishin kishin kasa da mata, Lady Abayomi (1897-1990).

## Freemasonry
Sir Kitoyi ya kasance Freemason kuma yana da mutuƙar daraja ga Freemasonry. An nada shi Worshipful Master of Lagos Lodge No. 1171 a 1901, 1906, 1907, 1908 & 1928.

## Manazarta

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