Tope Folarin

**Tope Folarin** (amụrụ ya n'afọ 1981) bụ onye edemede Naijiria na Amerịka na onye isi oche nke Institute for Policy Studies . O ritere ihe nrite Caine nke afọ 2013 maka edemede Afrịka maka obere akụkọ ya "Miracle". N'ọnwa Eprel afọ 2014, a kpọrọ ya aha na ọrụ Hay Festival's Africa39 dị ka otu n'ime ndị edemede 39 Sub-Saharan Africa dị afọ iri anọ nwere ikike na talent iji kọwaa ọnọdụ mpaghara ahụ. E depụtara akụkọ ya "Genesis" maka nke afọ 2016 Caine Prize.

## Mmalite ndụ ya
A mụrụ ya dị ka **Oluwabusayo Temitope Folarin** na Ogden, Utah, nye ndị mbịarambịa Naijiria, ma nwee ụmụnne anọ tọrọ ya - ụmụnne nwoke atọ na nwanne nwanyị, ha niile amụrụ na United States. O tolitere na Grand Prairie, Texas, ebe ya na ezinụlọ ya kwagara mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na anọ.

N'ikwu okwu banyere nkuzi ya n'ajụjụ ọnụ n'afọ 2016, Folarin kwuru na a zụlitere ya na ụmụnne ya na "nkwanye ùgwù miri emi" maka Naịjirịa na Afrịka. Ụmụaka ahụ chọsiri ike ileta Naịjirịa, mana nsogbu ego gbochiri ezinụlọ ahụ ime nke ahụ. "Echere m na edemede m na-egosipụta akụkụ abụọ a nke ndụ m - mmetụta nke ịdị nso na Naịjirịa, yana ebe dị anya," ka o kwuru.

Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ sekọndrị, ọ debara aha na Morehouse College. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ otu afọ na ọkara dị ka nwa akwụkwọ mgbanwe, nke mbụ na Bates College na Maine, mgbe ahụ na Mahadum nke Cape Town na South Africa, tupu ọ laghachi US ma gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Morehouse n'afọ 2004, na B.A. A kpọrọ ya onye agụmakwụkwọ Rhodes nke afọ 2004, na n'oge ọkọchị nke 2004 bụ Galbraith Scholar na Mahadum Harvard Ụlọ akwụkwọ ndị ọchịchị nke Kennedy . Mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị, ọ gara England ịmụ na Mahadum Oxford, ebe ọ bụ onye otu Harris Manchester College, gụsịrị akwụkwọ n'afọ 2006 na M.Sc. na mmụta nke Afrịka na M.Sc. na Comparative Social Policy .

## Ọrụ Ya
N'afọ 2013, Folarin ghọrọ onye edemede mbụ bi na mpụga Afrịka iji merie Caine Prize, nke o meriri maka obere akụkọ ya "Miracle". Akụkọ a mere na Texas na ụka na-ezisa ozi ọma na Naijiria. Ihe nrite nke ihe nrite - nke a na-emeghe maka onye ọ bụla a mụrụ na Afrịka, bụ onye mba Afrịka, ma ọ bụ onye nne na nna ya bụ ndị Afrịka - mere ka ụfọdụ mkparịta ụka banyere ma njikọ onye edemede ahụ na Afrịka siri ike."Abụ m onye edemede nke nọ na disapora Naijiria, na Caine Prize pụtara ọtụtụ ihe - ọ dị m ka enwere njikọ na ọdịnala dị ogologo nke ndị edemede Africa. Ihe nrite Caine na-agbasa nkọwa ya na oke ya. Ana m ewere onwe m dị ka onye Naijiria na onye Amerịka, njirimara abụọ ahụ bụ ihe dị mkpa maka onye m bụ. Iji merie ... ọ dị ka akara nke nkwenye. "N'ọnwa Eprel afọ 2014, a kpọrọ ya aha na ndepụta mmemme Hay  Africa39 nke ndị edemede nọ n'okpuru afọ iri anọ nwere ikike na talent iji kọwaa ọnọdụ na akwụkwọ Afrịka.

Ọ rụrụ ọrụ na bọọdụ ndị isi nke Hurston / Wright Foundation na United States.

Akwụkwọ mbụ ya, A Particular Kind of Black Man, bụ nke Simon & Schuster bipụtara n'ọnwa Ọgọstụ afọ 2019. N'ime ya, Folarin na-ede banyere ezinụlọ Naijiria, nke ọhụrụ na America, ka ha na-agbalị ịnabata. N'afọ 2021, Folarin meriri Ihe nrite maka akụkọ ifo nke Whiting .

N'afọ 2021, a kpọrọ ya dịka onye isi oche nke Institute for Policy Studies, ụlọ ọrụ na-eche echiche na-aga n'ihu nke dị na Washington, DC ebe ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye isi oche.

## Ndụ onwe
Folarin bi na Washington, DC.

## Mbipụta ya

* A Particular Kind of Black Man, Simon & Schuster, 2019  

### Akụkọ dị mkpirikpi

* "Miracle," Transition, No. 109, Persona (2012), pp. 73–83
* "The Summer of Ice Cream", *Virginia Quarterly Review*, Fall 2014, Vol. 90, No. 4, pp. 54+
* "New Mom, from a novel in progress," Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara, Bloomsbury Publishing, October 2014.
* "Genesis," na "Callaloo," Vol 37, No. 5, Fall 2014.<

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