This blog began in August 2010 as a journal of observations about experiences as a Fulbright (FLTA) scholar at an American university. It evolved eventually into these random thoughts of a writer, linguist, adult literacy volunteer, itinerant traveler, graduate student, occasional language teacher and a citizen journalist, looking at the world from out of a foreign country. The Fulbright teaching and travel experiences can be found in the archives between August 2009 and August 2010.
There are a few other things that interest me in areas of language, language technology, photography, human rights, linguistics, creative writing, governance, religion, Yoruba, poetry, politics, travel, life, Nigeria, film, United States, and journalism. You will find them here.
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About the Blogger
Name: Kola Tubosun, writer and linguist.
Education: Nigeria, Kenya and the United States.
Current occupation: Linguist, researcher, writer, translator, graduate student and foreign language teacher.
Favourite things: Poetry, photography, literature, music, food, and/or bothering friends with a list of silly questions.
Literary Influences: Roald Dahl, Father, Wole Soyinka, Richard Feynman, George Carlin, George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, J.M. Coetzee, Mark Twain, V.S. Naipaul, Albino Luciani, Czeslaw Milosz…
Other vanities: Published poetry, fiction, and travel articles in print and online publications around the world, including Sentinel Quarterly, International Literary Quarterly, Subjective Substance, 234NEXT, Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, The Alestle, among others. My short story Behind the Door appeared in a 2010 short story anthology titled “Africa Roar”, available on Amazon. Author of a book of poems in English, Headfirst into the Meddle (2005), and an unpublished collection of translated poems and literary texts between Yoruba and English. Poems “E=mc2″ and “Creation Story” won the prestigious Christopher Okigbo Poetry Prizes in Ibadan in 2002 and 2004 respectively. Poem “Here, moving” won the Sentinel Poetry Bar Challenge in October 2006. Fulbright scholar/FLTA professor from 2009 and 2010 at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
Favourite quote: “What’s the fucking mystery?” George Carlin
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Caveat: This blog is run with the dependable assistance of friends, colleagues, mentors, contributors, and many other people with random acts of kindness, and edited by Temie Giwa’s brutal, loving, and diligent eye. All the errors in here are therefore… mine.
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