Edafe Okurume

Edafe was born in Washington D.C., his father is an economist from Nigeria and his mother is a Foundational Black American educator from Mississippi. He grew up in Lagos, Mississippi and Atlanta.. Edafe means wealthy in the Urhobo language. After attending Morehouse College Edafe boarded a Greyhound bus with three hundred dollars in his pocket and headed to Los Angeles and in two months landed his first role on A Different World after Debbie Allen discovered him in a black history parade. Edafe would go on to star in the classic romantic comedy For Your Love for four seasons.