Moshood Adisa Olabisi Ajala, also known as Ọlábísí Àjàlá, was a Nigerian journalist, travel writer, actor, and socialite.

Between 1957 and 1962, Àjàlá trekked across Asia, Africa and Oceania on a Vespa scooter, publishing an account of his experiences as An African Abroad in 1963.

To this day, Àjàlá remains a significant figure within Nigerian popular culture, with songs and sayings commemorating his adventurous travel across the world.

Later that year, after a number of run-ins with the American immigration for petty offenses including issuing false checks, Àjàlá was sentenced to one-year suspended jail term.

[10] He had also abandoned his school work—he had supposedly transferred to Santa Monica Junior College but was not keeping up with his studies—and was ordered to be deported to Nigeria.

He settled in Chicago with his wife Hermine Aileen, a New York model, although the pair divorced in 1955 on grounds of philandering and adultery which Àjàlá he did not contest.

[15] He visited India, the Soviet Union, the United Arab Republic, Iran, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Türkiye, Hong Kong, China and Australia.

[16] The journey attracted the attention of several world leaders, and Àjàlá met and conducted short interviews with Jawaharlal Nehru, Golda Meir, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Gamal Abdel Nasser, The Shah of Iran, and Nikita Khrushchev.

However, he broke this contract to move to the United Arab Republic, where he appeared as a guest announcer on Radio Cairo's African service.

His broadcasts from Cairo were consistently anti-Israeli, warning listeners about the nation's "continuous propaganda against the Arab countries" and its mistreatment of Mizrahi Jews.

He was also arrested at Jerusalem's Mandelbaum Gate, at that time the border between Israel and Jordan, where he was almost shot by Jordanian security forces for speeding across without permission.