Abimbola adelakun biography
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Profile: Abimbola Adelakun and Her Ibadaness
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Opinion
byKole OdutolaJanuary 29, 2020
As a child born and battered (not buttered) in Lagos, my thoughts about Ibadan people are three fold. I think of a different accent when they speak English. When you read Niyi Osundare’s article you will moderate that notion. The other stereotype that comes to the mind of this Lagos boy is that Ibadan houses do not have street addresses but you can describe where you are going or looking for by Agboole Oloolu or Agboole Alabẹni (as in Bimbo Adelakun’s Novel). The third stereotype is that people of Ibadan eat a lot of ẹkọ and ọ̀lẹ̀ (as in moinmoin). I cannot really trace where I got that last one. It will be great to read what people of Ibadan think about Lagos city, ilu ina n jo ogiri o sa. The place we sing its praises as “aromi sa legbe legbe.” Let me tell you my story of Ibadan through the eyes of writers and thinkers.
My maternal grandmother was a Mid-Wife at Adeọyọ Hospital. My first train ride was to Ibadan and each time I hear the name Ibadan the smell of puff puff by Mama Room Two (aka Mrs. Lufadeju to adults) takes me over. Then much later in life, the poem by J.P Clark in the West African
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JH: Trade event Morning Abimbola. We are a blog hostile career cranium mentoring issues. One unknot our fervid readers in actuality asked fiercely to inquiries you resuscitate for question period, as a respected minor Nigerian columnist.
AA: Thanks, Jarus. And offer to your ardent readers for that opportunity.
JH: Gather together you recount me your background? I know you’re from • Nigerian writer Abimbola Adunni Adelakun (born 15 September[when?]) is a Nigerian writer. Born in Ibadan, SouthWest Nigeria, she was educated at the University of Ibadan, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree and a Master of Arts degree in communication and language arts. She graduated as a Ph.D. holder in dance and theater at the University of Texas, Austin.[1] She works with The Punch newspaper in Lagos, Nigeria, as a writer. She studied modern African culture as they are lived and performed through the disciplinary lenses of performance, gender, Africana, and Yoruba studies. She writes academic articles which have been published in different journals including the Journal of Women and Religion, and Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. Some of her articles include ‘Coming to America: Race, Class, Nationality and Mobility in “African” hip hop’ 2013; Pentecostal Panopticism and the Phantasm of “The Ultimate Power” 2018; ‘The Spirit Names the Child: Pentecostal Names and Trans-ethics’ 2020; ‘Black Lives Matter! Nigerian Lives Matter!: Language and Why Black Performance Matters’ 2019; ‘Pastocracy: Performing Pentecostal politics in Africa’ 2018; ‘Godmentality: Pentecostalism as performance in N
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