Tope Adeboboye

Tope Adeboboye writes for Nigeria's King of the Tabloids, Lagos-based The Sun newspapers. A former Senior Correspondent with Saturday Punch, Tope has won a couple of awards, including the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award's Features Writer of the Year (2000/2001) and the International Library of Poetry's Editor's Choice Award. He currently lives in the United States.
Arts & Books

Agony Of A Continent

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Africa's journey since the first contact with the Portuguese in the late 1490s is what Howard French passionately takes us through in his new book, A Continent For The Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa...
Interviews & Profiles

Women are dangerous – Conversation with Tony Tetuila

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So long as you are a microphone man, you are a star and ladies will always be around you. But there's always a diplomatic way of discouraging them. Women are dangerous. You have to be careful the way you deal with them, because women can lift you up and if you aint careful, they will pull you down...
Interviews & Profiles

Women are dangerous – Conversation with Tony Tetuila

Tope Adeboboye -
So long as you are a microphone man, you are a star and ladies will always be around you. But there's always a diplomatic way of discouraging them. Women are dangerous. You have to be careful the way you deal with them, because women can lift you up and if you aint careful, they will pull you down...
Life Abroad

The Yoke of Hamburgers…

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"I don't want to go to Lagos. There shall be no peace inside this plane in Jesus name unless I am released. I don't want to go to Nigeria. I am being punished for nothing. Jesus, save me from this persecution. Save me O Lord. Release me from this bondage O Lord."

Interviews & Profiles

A Witness to these Times…Conversation with Akin Adesokan (1)

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"My writing is an attempt to bear an honest witness to my time, to the experience I have as a human being, as a Nigerian, as an African. The African experience – slavery, wars, colonialism, diseases, neo-colonialism..." - Akin Adesokan
Interviews & Profiles

A Witness to these Times…Conversation with Akin Adesokan (2)

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"My writing is an attempt to bear an honest witness to my time, to the experience I have as a human being, as a Nigerian, as an African. The African experience – slavery, wars, colonialism, diseases, neo-colonialism..." - Akin Adesokan
Interviews & Profiles

A Witness to these Times…Conversation with Akin Adesokan (3)

Tope Adeboboye -
"My writing is an attempt to bear an honest witness to my time, to the experience I have as a human being, as a Nigerian, as an African. The African experience – slavery, wars, colonialism, diseases, neo-colonialism..." - Akin Adesokan
Nigeria Matters

Oshodi: Mud And Muck, After Rain

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Don’t allow your wife to take what rightly belongs to you to another man. Come and pick up an envelope…
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