This is, primarily, a travel blog.

Not that young anymore, but I always loved this photo from November 2009, taken by one of the SIUE students in my Yorùbá class.

 

My name is Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, and I started writing here in August of 2009 at the beginning of a Fulbright Fellowship to the United States. It was my first time of leaving the African continent and I wanted a space to record my observations, interests, vocations, experiences, and classroom memories.

I thought of shutting it down many years after, even after I returned to Nigeria. But I’ve heard from a number of people who found the experiences I recorded helpful for their own trips, either for research, for education, or for pleasure. So I kept it up, even through my two-year graduate school at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2010-2012), my return to Nigeria afterwards, and through a number of important events. In August 2019, I returned abroad for a Chevening Research Fellowship at the British Library in London. A few writings from that time survived here, and more will come when I recover a few more spare moments to put the memories into comprehensible prose.

I don’t know for how long the blog will remain up. For now, feel free to enjoy a record of over ten years of traveling, experiencing the world as a Nigerian living around the world, and sharing my thoughts on a number of subjects that interest me. Occasionally, I’d share fresh writings here. At other times, I’ll share pieces of mine that have been published elsewhere, especially on platforms that may not be accessible to everyone.

I continue to work as a creative writer, linguist, and (recently) filmmaker. A more formal website of my work and interests is at www.kolatubosun.com.