Author

Akin Adesokan

Akin Adesokan worked for many years as a journalist, beginning with The Guardian (Lagos), and the initially clandestine newsmagazine, TEMPO, for which he also wrote a weekly fiction column. He was a receipient of the PEN Freedom-to-Write Award (1998), and the Hellman/Hammett Award of the Free Expression Project of Human Rights Watch (1999). Roots in the Sky (2004), his first novel, was in manuscript form when it won the Association of Nigerian Authors' prize for Fiction in 1996. He is co-editor of the Lagos-based journal, Glendora Review. He is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, US.