Kola Tubosun is the 2009/10 grantee of the Fulbright FLTA program to Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He studied Linguistics and African Languages at the University of Ibadan, and Moi University, Eldoret Kenya, where he was also awarded a MacArthur Foundation Scholarship in 2004. He maintains a quasi-personal linguistics blog at www.igwatala.blogspot.com
and also writes for Instablogs.com as a freelance journalist at www.igwatala.instablogs.com
His first collection of poetry, Headfirst into the Meddle was published in
Ibadan in 2005. His poem "Creation Story" won the First Prize in the Ibadan Christopher Okigbo Poetry Competition in 2004. Another one, "Here, Moving" won the Sentinel Poetry Bar Challenge in October 2006. He was born, and continues to live, in Ibadan, Nigeria.
Why I finally decided to take the test, I no longer remember. There was no compulsion whatsoever beyond the recurring curiosity that was never strong enough to overcome all reasonable and unreasonable resistance. After about a week in and out of the clinic getting one immunisation injection or the other, the last thing I wanted on my arm was another needle jab – much less one that involved blood-letting... Full Story
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