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name: Olabode Ogunlana
about: fter a long career in Insurance, a return to art school coupled with a masters degree earning a distinction at Buckingham University, Olabode Ogunlana turned his knack for proverbial story telling into fiction writing. Over a year and half part of which included the period in which he went on a postgraduate masters course at Buckingham University he had an evolving conversation with academics as well as ourselves about translating his thesis into short stories, for international publishing. The concept was to produce books of short stories which would act as a useful resource for an international audience interested in Yoruba or Yoruba inspired narratives, to gain the author’s perspective about everything from the settings of proverbial syn fter a long career in Insurance, a return to art school coupled with a masters degree earning a distinction at Buckingham University, Olabode Ogunlana turned his knack for proverbial story telling into fiction writing. Over a year and half part of which included the period in which he went on a postgraduate masters course at Buckingham University he had an evolving conversation with academics as well as ourselves about translating his thesis into short stories, for international publishing. The concept was to produce books of short stories which would act as a useful resource for an international audience interested in Yoruba or Yoruba inspired narratives, to gain the author’s perspective about everything from the settings of proverbial syntax in Yoruba language, to historical geography specific antecedents and sub-cultures that inform contemporary trends in parts of South-Western Nigeria. ...more