ktravula – a travelogue!

Once upon a time in a faraway land in West Africa, this blog began as short musings from a traveller pondering his journey to a land of the cold where he has never been before except in his wildest dreams. That traveller, also sometimes called KT, is a child from Yorubaland, Nigeria, on a Fulbright program to locations in the United States. FLTA is the Foreign Language Teaching Assistant program of Fulbright, aimed at trading in culture and lingistic knowledge for more international intercultural understanding among nations. The Fulbright Programme was created in the aftermath of the World War II through the efforts of Senator J. William Fulbright to promote peace and understanding through educational exchange.

The blog has now evolved into random observations of a linguist and creative writer. On this blog, you will find the things that interest me in areas of language, photography, human rights, linguistics, creative writing, religion, poetry and journalism.

This site is not an official Fulbright Program site, and the views expressed therein are entirely mine and do not represent the views of the Fulbright Program, the U.S. Department of State or any of its partner organizations.

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About the Blogger

I was born in Ibadan, Nigeria. I studied Linguistics at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, Moi University in Kenya and Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.

I have published poetry in Maple Tree Literary Supplement, AfricanWriter, Farafina, Sentinel Poetry Quarterly, Sentinel Nigeria, Story Time, Subjective Substance, Saraba, The Eintouist, Concelebratory Shoehorn Review and poetry in translation in the International Literary Quarterly. I have also published travel articles in 234next and photos in the New York Times. My short story Behind the Door has just appeared in a 2010 short story anthology titled “Africa Roar”, available on Amazon. Check out a list of my other publications here.

I have worked as freelance radio and print journalist, translator and researcher, and a foreign language teacher of Yoruba at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville on a Fulbright programme. I am currently a Masters student in a Linguistics-related discipline.

I’ll be glad to read your comments, questions, requests and suggestions. Please send them to me at kt@ktravula.com.

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