Michael Olutusen Onafowokan (1912–1991)[1] was a Nigerian architect regarded as the pioneer of architecture in Nigeria and Commonwealth Africa.

He passed the Junior Cambridge Examination in 1932, after which he attended the Public Works Department technical school and obtained a diploma in Civil Engineering in 1938.

Transferred to Glasgow Caledonian University in 1947 Bachelor of Science in Architecture – 1952 Post Graduate Diploma in Town Planning – 1953

[5][6] The architecture firm still exists in the modern day as Onafowokan Cityscape Limited over 30 years after his death.

[citation needed] He championed the architectural philosophy of Tropical Modernism in Nigeria,[8] ensuring that the users of buildings are not affected by the climate, the hospitals like the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital,[9] the Patriarch Bolaji Methodist Church which was designed in 1969 were great examples of tropical modernism architectural design philosophy at play in Nigeria.