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Kola Tubosun, the Glossary

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún (born 22 September 1981) is a Nigerian linguist, writer, translator, scholar, cultural activist and film-maker.^[1]

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21st-century Nigerian educators
Anthologists
English–Yoruba translators
English-language writers from Nigeria
Linguists from Nigeria
Nigerian bloggers
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Olatubosun Oladapo family
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumni
Writers from Ibadan
Yoruba educators
Yoruba writers
Yoruba–English translators
Yoruba-language writers

Aisha (2022 film)

Aisha is a 2022 Irish drama film written and directed by Frank Berry.

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Aké Arts and Book Festival

The Aké Arts and Book Festival is a literary and artistic event held annually in Nigeria.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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The BBC Academy is an educational arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation which trains current and prospective broadcasting employees in the skills of the Broadcasting industry, in addition to training the corporation's own staff and prospects.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Best Literary Translations

Best Literary Translations (BLT) is "the first U.S. anthology devoted to celebrating the breadth of literary translators’ work".

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Biyi Bandele

Biyi Bandele (born Biyi Bandele-Thomas; 13 October 1967 – 7 August 2022) was a Nigerian novelist, playwright and filmmaker.

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Brandon Stanton

Brandon Stanton (born March 1, 1984) is an American author, photographer, and blogger.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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Brittle Paper

Brittle Paper is an online literary magazine styled as an "African literary blog" published weekly in the English language.

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Brymo

Ọlawale Ọlọfọrọ (born Olawale Ibrahim Ashimi; 9 May 1986), better known as Brymo, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, sonic artist, actor and author who was born and raised in Okokomaiko.

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Chevening Scholarship

The Chevening Scholarship is an international scholarship, funded by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and partner organizations, that lets foreign students with leadership qualities study at universities in the United Kingdom.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian author who is regarded as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature. Kola Tubosun and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are 21st-century Nigerian educators.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.

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Death and the King's Horseman

Death and the King's Horseman is a play by Wole Soyinka based on a real incident that took place in Nigeria during the colonial era: the horseman of a Yoruba King was prevented from committing ritual suicide by the colonial authorities.

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Deyemi Okanlawon

Deyemi Okanlawon(born 19 April 1979) is a Nigerian film, television, theatre and voice actor.

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Ebonylife TV

Ebonylife TV is an entertainment TV channel owned by Mosunmola Abudu popularly called Mo Abudu, It was launched on DSTV on July, 2013 after which the station was later added to DSTV in September 2014.

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Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory

Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory is a documentary film written, produced, and directed by Kola Tubosun, and shot by Tunde Kelani, about the eponymous location at the University of Ibadan where Nigerian writer/playwright and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka lived and worked between 1967 and 1972.

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Eldoret

Eldoret is town and urban centre in Kenya.

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Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman

Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman is a 2022 Yoruba-language Nigerian historical drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and distributed by Netflix, based on Death and the King's Horseman, a stage play he wrote while in Cambridge, where he was a fellow at Churchill College during his political exile from Nigeria, and it is based on a real incident that took place in Yorubaland during British Colonial rule.

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Emily Grosholz

Emily Rolfe Grosholz (born 1950 Philadelphia) is an American poet and philosopher.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Enkare Review

Enkare Review is a Nairobi-based literary magazine established in August 2016, after initial conversations between Alexis Teyie, Troy Onyango, and Carey Baraka.

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Fisayo Soyombo

Fisayo Soyombo (born October 27), is a Nigerian investigative journalist and founder of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ).

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Frank Berry (director)

Frank Berry is an Irish film director and screenwriter, known for his social realist dramas focused on marginalised characters.

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Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills. Kola Tubosun and Fulbright Program are Fulbright alumni.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture (formerly Google Art Project) is an online platform of high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organizations throughout the world.

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Guy Ritchie

Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Haruki Murakami

is a Japanese writer.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Humans of New York

Humans of New York (HONY) is a photoblog and book of street portraits and interviews collected on the streets of New York City.

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Ibadan

Ibadan is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria.

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Igbo language

Igbo (Standard Igbo: Ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò) is the principal native language cluster of the Igbo people, an ethnicity in the Southeastern part of Nigeria.

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International Year of Indigenous Languages

The International Year of Indigenous Languages was a United Nations observance in 2019 that aimed to raise awareness of the consequences of the endangerment of Indigenous languages across the world, with an aim to establish a link between language, development, peace, and reconciliation.

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Isele Magazine

Isele Magazine is a literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and book reviews.

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Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield (born February 24, 1953) is an American poet, essayist, and translator, known as 'one of American poetry's central spokespersons for the biosphere' and recognized as 'among the modern masters,' 'writing some of the most important poetry in the world today.' A 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, her books include numerous award-winning collections of her own poems, collections of essays, and edited and co-translated volumes of world writers from the deep past.

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Jide Kosoko

Jide Kosoko (born 12 January 1954) is a veteran Nigerian actor, director and producer. He was born into a royal family, hence his traditional title of prince or "omoba" in the Yoruba language.

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Joke Silva

Joke Silva MFR is a veteran Nigerian actress, director, and businesswoman.

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Josh O'Connor

Joshua O'Connor (born 20 May 1990) is a British actor.

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Lagoon (novel)

Lagoon is an Africanfuturist novel by Nnedi Okorafor (2014, Hodder & Stoughton; 2015, Saga Press/Simon & Schuster).

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Lagos

Lagos (also US), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria.

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Lagos Island

Lagos Island (Ìsàlẹ̀ Èkó) is the principal and central Local Government Area (LGA) in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Langley Kirkwood

Langley Kirkwood (born 14 April 1973) is a South African actor and triathlete.

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Languages of Nigeria

Bura Sign Language |foreign.

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Laura Miller (writer)

Laura Miller is an American journalist and critic based in New York City.

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Letitia Wright

Letitia Michelle Wright (born 31 October 1993) is a Guyanese actress.

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LifeBank (Nigeria)

LifeBank is a healthcare technology and logistics company based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

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List of Nigerian bloggers

This is a list of notable Nigerian bloggers. Kola Tubosun and list of Nigerian bloggers are Nigerian bloggers.

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Literary Wonderlands

Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created is a 2016 book edited by Laura Miller, co-founder of Salon.com.

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MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants and impact investments to support non-profit organizations in approximately 117 countries around the world.

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Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship

The Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship, also called the Morland Writing Scholarships or the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship is an annual financial scholarship awarded to four to six African writers to enable them write a fiction or non-fiction book in the English language.

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Moi University

Moi University is a public university located in Kesses, Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu county, in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya.

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Natural language processing

Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and artificial intelligence.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Next (Nigeria)

Next is a newspaper in Nigeria that was founded by Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Dele Olojede in 2004, covering news, opinion, arts & culture, business and entertainment.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born James Ngugi; 5 January 1938) is a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as "East Africa's leading novelist".

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Nigerian English

Nigerian English, also known as Nigerian Standard English, is a dialect of English spoken in Nigeria.

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Nigerian Pidgin

Nigerian Pidgin, also known as Naijá in scholarship, is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria.

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Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedimma Nkemdili "Nnedi" Okorafor (formerly Okorafor-Mbachu; born April 8, 1974) is a Nigerian American writer of science fiction and fantasy for both children and adults.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).

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Odunlade Adekola

Odunlade Jonathan Adekola (born 31 December 1976) is a Nigerian actor, singer, film-maker, film producer and film director. He gained popularity and was widely known for his lead role in Ishola Durojaye's 2003 movie, Asiri Gomina Wa, and has acted in many Nollywood movies since then. He is the founder and CEO of the Odunlade Adekola Film Production (OAFP).

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Olatubosun Oladapo

Ọlátúbọ̀sún Oládàpọ̀, also known as Túbọ́sún Ọládàpọ̀, or Odídẹrẹ́ Ayékòótọ́ (born September 19, 1943), is a Yoruba-language folk poet, playwright, music producer, radio personality/broadcaster, writer, and researcher from Nigeria whose primary audience speak Yorùbá and reside chiefly in South-West Nigeria. Kola Tubosun and Olatubosun Oladapo are Olatubosun Oladapo family, writers from Ibadan, Yoruba writers and Yoruba-language writers.

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Omowumi Dada

Omowunmi Dada (born 2 October 1989) is a Nigerian actress, best known for her role as Folake in the M-Net television series Jemeji. She was also cast in the 2017 Yoruba language film Somewhere in the Dark, which won the award for Best Indigenous Film at the 2017 AMVCA Awards, and for which she received a nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Yoruba) at the Best of Nollywood Awards in 2017.

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Ostana

Ostana is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin and about northwest of Cuneo.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.

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Oyo State

Oyo State is a state in southwestern Nigeria.

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Poetry Translation Centre

The Poetry Translation Centre (PTC) is an organization dedicated to translating poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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Premio Ostana

The Ostana Prize – Writings in the Mother Tongue, is an annual prize and cultural initiative organized by the Municipality of Ostana and by the Cultural Association Chambra d'Oc.

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Province of Cuneo

The province of Cuneo (provincia di Cuneo; provincia ëd Coni) is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy.

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Quartz (publication)

Quartz is an American English language news website owned by G/O Media.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist.

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Saraba (magazine)

Saraba is a nonprofit literary magazine published by the Saraba Literary Trust in Nigeria.

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Shaffy Bello

Shaffy Bello is a Nigerian film actress and singer.

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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is a public university in Edwardsville, Illinois.

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Special Operations Executive

Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local resistance movements during World War II.

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St. Louis

St.

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Taiwo Ajai-Lycett

Taiwo Ajai-Lycett, OON (born 3 February 1941) is a Nigerian actress,journalist, television presenter, and cosmetologist. Kola Tubosun and Taiwo Ajai-Lycett are Nigerian journalists.

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Temie Giwa-Tubosun

Temie Giwa-Tubosun (born Oluwaloni Olamide Giwa, December 1985) is a Nigerian-American health manager, founder of LifeBank (formerly One Percent Project), a business enterprise in Nigeria working to improve access to blood transfusions in the country. Kola Tubosun and Temie Giwa-Tubosun are Olatubosun Oladapo family.

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The Guardian (Nigeria)

The Guardian is a Nigerian independent daily newspaper, established in 1983, published by Guardian Newspapers Limited in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, founded in 1976 and taking place each September.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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University of Ibadan

The University of Ibadan (UI) is a public research university in Ibadan, Nigeria.

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Voice of America

Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is an international radio broadcasting state media agency owned by the United States of America.

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Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde "Wole" Soyinka (Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé "Wọlé" Ṣóyíinká,; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. Kola Tubosun and Wole Soyinka are 21st-century Nigerian poets, English-language writers from Nigeria, Nigerian male poets, university of Ibadan alumni, Yoruba academics and Yoruba–English translators.

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Yemi Adesanya

Yemi Adesanya is a Nigerian author, accountant and inventor. Kola Tubosun and Yemi Adesanya are 21st-century Nigerian poets, English-language writers from Nigeria, Olatubosun Oladapo family and writers from Ibadan.

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Yemisi Aribisala

Yemisi Aribisala (born 27 April 1973) is a Nigerian essayist, writer, painter, and food memoirist. Kola Tubosun and Yemisi Aribisala are 21st-century Nigerian writers and English-language writers from Nigeria.

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YNaija

YNaija is a Nigerian online content publishing platform, founded by Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams of RED Africa media group.

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Yoruba Academy

The Yoruba Academy is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental, multi-disciplinary institution set up to shepherd the growth and development of Yorùbá language, arts, and culture, through collaboration with scholars, politicians, businessmen and experts in Yoruba language, culture, economics, law, science and technology, and governance.

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Yoruba language

Yoruba (Yor. Èdè Yorùbá,; Ajami: عِدعِ يوْرُبا) is a language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria.

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Yoruba Name Project

The Yoruba Names Project is a documentation project set up to ensure the transfer of language and cultural resources of Yoruba language into a publicly accessible online format.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Tubosun

Also known as Kola Olatubosun, Kolawole Olatubosun.

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Kola Tubosun, the Glossary

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See also

21st-century Nigerian educators

Anthologists

English–Yoruba translators

English-language writers from Nigeria

Linguists from Nigeria

Nigerian bloggers

Nigerian schoolteachers

Nigerian travel writers

Olatubosun Oladapo family

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumni

Writers from Ibadan

Yoruba educators

Yoruba writers

Yoruba–English translators

Yoruba-language writers

References