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.

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About the Blogger

Kola Tubosun was born in Ibadan, Nigeria. He studied Linguistics at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, Moi University in Kenya and Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. His poetry has appeared in Maple Tree Literary Supplement, AfricanWriter, Farafina, Sentinel Poetry Quarterly, Sentinel Nigeria, Story Time, Subjective Substance, The Eintouist, Concelebratory Shoehorn Review and in the International Literary Quarterly. His short story Behind the Door is forth-coming in a 2010 short story anthology titled “Africa Roar”. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Scholarship (2005)  as well as the Fulbright Fellowship (2009). His poem “Creation Story” won the Okigbo Poetry Prize in Ibadan in 2004 while another one “Here, Moving” won the Sentinel Poetry Challenge in October 2006. His first collection of poems titled Headfirst into the Meddle was published in 2005. He has worked as freelance journalist, translator and researcher and has interests in photography. He is currently a foreign language teacher of Yoruba at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. On twitter, he is @baroka.

Praise for “Behind the Door”

“The author uses a straightforward story telling style combined with a controlled voice and well handled characters who are carefully manipulated to advance the tale. Every scene works well to give that sense of compactness; the author has a clear mastery of the voice he has chosen to assume and moulds a neat story dabbed here and there with tints of intellectualism.” – Critical Literature Review (2009)