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I Go Dye, whose real name is Francis Agoda, is a Nigerian comedian who won the Nigeria Best Comedian Award, appeared on the MTV Africa Music Awards, and has preformed with other internationally known comedians on stage, and TV. Here are 12 things you didn’t know about comedian I Go Dye
.He went to primary school twice As a child, I Go Dye’s mother realized he could not speak Pigdin English, aka Guinea Coast Creole English, spoken amongst West Africans. She made him begin primary school all over again. -
He is an inventor After school the comedian enrolled in the College of Commerce in Warri, in Delta State, Nigeria, where he became an inventor. He invented a battery-powered hovercraft, a flying helicopter, a radio transmitter and a table fan. His inventions earned him a scholarship to study engineering at the University of New York. I Go Dye turned down the scholarship. He became the project manager of the Junior Engineering Technical Society at the College of Commerce.
Where he fell in love with comedy While still in college, I Go Dye became the program director at the Press Literary Debating and Drama Society and this is where he fell in love with stage comedy. I Go Dye began performing at other local colleges. Where he gets his name

I Go Dye’s stage name is a play on his real name “Agoda.” The comedian said some people mistake it to mean “I Go Die” but “Dye” is purposefully spelled that way because the comic said he’s “out to dye, to brighten the state of the heart.”is parents were wary of comedy The comedian grew up at a time when Nigerian comedians were barely making money.
6 His parents disapproved of his decision to reject the New York University scholarship in favor of traveling the world performing comedy. The comedian said in Sunnewsonline, “When we started comedy some 20 years ago, it was not a lucrative business and my parents did not believe that one could actually make a living out of it.

His parents were wary of comedy
The comedian grew up at a time when Nigerian comedians were barely making money. His parents disapproved of his decision to reject the New York University scholarship in favor of traveling the world performing comedy. The comedian said in Sunnewsonline, “When we started comedy some 20 years ago, it was not a lucrative business and my parents did not believe that one could actually make a living out of it.”
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Where he fell in love with comedy
While still in college, I Go Dye became the program director at the Press Literary Debating and Drama Society and this is where he fell in love with stage comedy. I Go Dye began performing at other local colleges.
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He is an inventor

After school the comedian enrolled in the College of Commerce in Warri, in Delta State, Nigeria, where he became an inventor. He invented a battery-powered hovercraft, a flying helicopter, a radio transmitter and a table fan. His inventions earned him a scholarship to study engineering at the University of New York. I Go Dye turned down the scholarship. He became the project manager of the Junior Engineering Technical Society at the College of Commerce.
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He went to primary school twice

As a child, I Go Dye’s mother realized he could not speak Pigdin English, aka Guinea Coast Creole English, spoken amongst West Africans. She made him begin primary school all over again.
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