Tope Adeboboye
Tope Adeboboye writes for Nigeria's King of the Tabloids, Lagos-based The Sun newspapers. A former Senior Correspondent with Saturday Punch, Tope has won a couple of awards, including the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award's Features Writer of the Year (2000/2001) and the International Library of Poetry's Editor's Choice Award. He currently lives in the United States.
Entries by this Author
These spatters upon my roof - Poems by Tope Adeboboye
- By Tope Adeboboye
- Published May 16, 2007
- Poetry
- Unrated
And from across the skyThe heavy warning persists
And now without a warning ring
Sudden spatters clang the roof...
Clattering like pebbles sprayed on steel
A Witness to these Times...The Akin Adesokan Interview
- By Tope Adeboboye
- Published May 6, 2007
- Profiles & Interviews
- Unrated
"My writing is an attempt to bear an honest witness to my time, to the experience I have as a human being, as a Nigerian, as an African. The African experience – slavery, wars, colonialism, diseases, neo-colonialism..." - Akin Adesokan