Tokunbo: Conversations with Nigerian Storytellers in the Diaspora
Jola Naibi
11 episodes
5 months ago
Send us a text Kola Tubosun is a Nigerian poet, linguist, writer, translator, publisher, and documentary filmmaker. He is the curator of YorubaName.com, the first crowd-sourced dictionary of Yoruba names. His published work include Esu at the Library, Edwardsville by Heart, and Igba Ewe: Translated Poems of Emily R. Grosholz. He recently directed Ebrohimie Road, a documentary focusing on the small bungalow on the campus of the University of Ibadan that played a strong role in the life and wor...
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Send us a text Kola Tubosun is a Nigerian poet, linguist, writer, translator, publisher, and documentary filmmaker. He is the curator of YorubaName.com, the first crowd-sourced dictionary of Yoruba names. His published work include Esu at the Library, Edwardsville by Heart, and Igba Ewe: Translated Poems of Emily R. Grosholz. He recently directed Ebrohimie Road, a documentary focusing on the small bungalow on the campus of the University of Ibadan that played a strong role in the life and wor...
Episode 9: Sefi Atta in Conversation with Jola Naibi
Tokunbo: Conversations with Nigerian Storytellers in the Diaspora
55 minutes
5 months ago
Episode 9: Sefi Atta in Conversation with Jola Naibi
Send us a text Sefi Atta is a Nigerian-American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and screenwriter. Her books include Every Good Thing Will Come, A Bit of Difference, The Bead Collector, The Bad Immigrant, and Swallow which was made into a Netflix movie. Her upcoming book Indigene will be released in the summer of 2025. In this conversation with Jola Naibi, for the Tokunbo podcast series, she talks about telling a coherent story by conjuring the images in Lagos while living in the dia...
Tokunbo: Conversations with Nigerian Storytellers in the Diaspora
Send us a text Kola Tubosun is a Nigerian poet, linguist, writer, translator, publisher, and documentary filmmaker. He is the curator of YorubaName.com, the first crowd-sourced dictionary of Yoruba names. His published work include Esu at the Library, Edwardsville by Heart, and Igba Ewe: Translated Poems of Emily R. Grosholz. He recently directed Ebrohimie Road, a documentary focusing on the small bungalow on the campus of the University of Ibadan that played a strong role in the life and wor...
