Wikipedia:Wale Fanu

Wale Fanu (29 October 1952- 12 June 2022) popularly known as Uncle Wales was a veteran TV and Film producer,  the CEO of  CINECRAFT and  one of the few septuagenarian with sickle cell anaemia.

Early Life and Career
Wale Fanu was born into Fanu family in Lagos state Nigeria and he St. Paul’s College Zaria. He was the third child of the family and the only one with sickle cell anaemia. The ailment was diagnosed at age of thirteen and apart from being medically sentenced to a life not more than twenty one years, he also faced different challenges and some of them are ; unable to do some activities meant for young people like playing football, hockey, cricket etc. He forgo his admission to be a pilot and also withdrawn out of Technical College (now The Polytechnic), Ibadan as an Electrical Engineering student because of the adversities of the ailment and picked up  a job at film laboratory in Ikoyi and eventually become a veteran film producer and the CEO of CINECRAFT