page_title: Kola Tubosun
section_title: Creative and Travel Writing
hierarchical_section_title: Kola Tubosun / Creative and Travel Writing
caption_attribution_description: English: Writer Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún at Aké Arts and Book Festival (2016)
context_page_description: Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a Nigerian linguist, writer, translator, scholar, and cultural activist. His work and influence span the fields of education, technology, literature, journalism, and linguistics. He is the recipient of the 2016 Premio Ostana "Special Prize" for Writings in the Mother Tongue. for his work in language advocacy. He writes in Yoruba and English.
context_section_description: Tubosun has contributed to Nigerian creative writing since 2005, through poetry, travel writing, essay, prose, travel writing and literary criticism. His work has appeared in the International Literary Quarterly, Sentinel Poetry, Brittle Paper, Ake Review, Popula, NTLitMag, and Enkare Review. In 2010, he contributed to 234Next as a travel writer. 
  He worked as the pioneering editor of a Literary Magazine of new writing from Nigerian and Africa called NTLitMag, from 2012 to 2015. In November 2015, he co-edited as well as Aké Review, the literary publication of the Aké Arts and Book Festival, with Kolade Arogundade. From 2015–2016, while he taught as a schoolteacher, he edited two issues of The Sail, an anthology of creative works of high school students.
  Tubosun has been on the Advisory Board of the Aké Arts and Book Festival since July 2019.
  In September 2018, he accompanied Brandon Stanton from Humans of New York as a guide while the latter was in Nigeria, an experience he later wrote about.
  In 2016, he wrote the entry on Nnedi Okorafor's science fiction novel Lagoon for "Imaginary Wonderlands" (October, 2016), a collection of essays about invented worlds in literature from around the globe, from Dante to Rushdie. The book was edited by Laura Miller (writer).
  After writing an illuminating travel profile on Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka in 2018, Tubosun was awarded the 2019 Morland Writing Scholarship to write a biography of the writer, Africa's first Nobel Laureate in Literature.
caption: Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún at a recent book panel. Photo courtesy Ake Arts and Book Festival 2016
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