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 FLTA program to locations in the United States. This is also his first time out of the African continent.

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.

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.

All photos and texts on this blog are protected by copyright and should not be copied, used or reproduced without permission.  Please send questions, suggestions and other comments or requests to me at kt@ktravula.com.

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About the Blogger

I am a linguist, and a student of language, and also sometimes a journalist and technology enthusiast.

I love words, languages, music, books, movies, photography, wine, art, poetry and bicycles. I speak, in order of competence, Yoruba, English, Pidgin, French, Swahili and Hausa. I also know a few German words and expressions

My first book is a collection of poems titled “Headfirst into the Meddle,” published in 2005.

I’ve been published in the Maple Tree Literary Supplement, AfricanWriter, Sentinel Poetry Quarterly, Sentinel Nigeria, Story Time, Subjective Substance, The Eintouist, and in the International Literary Quarterly. My short story is forth-coming in a 2010 short story anthology titled “Africa Roar”.

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