Thompson Adogbeji Salubi was a Nigerian diarist, historian and politician who was president of the Urhobo Progress Union for twenty years.
Salubi: Witness to British Colonial Rule in Urhoboland and Nigeria by the Urhobo Historical Society in 2008.
[1] Salubi was born in Western Urhobo land, his father was from Ovu in present day Ethiope East local government area of Delta State.
His first work was teaching at Okpara waterside, on the side, he also did translation for a Yoruba preacher.
He went back to Lagos and spent two years at baptist Academy, thereafter, Salubi joined colonial service in 1927 starting work as a trainee in the sanitary department of the Lagos Town Council.