Kola Tubosun
Kola Tubosun was born in Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a linguist and technology enthusiast. His publications include a book of poems in English, Headfirst into the Meddle (2005), and a few unpublished translations of some Yoruba poems and poets into English, and some Nigerian English creative writing pieces into Yoruba. His article 'Speaking the Machine - a personal narrative of a translation experience' first appeared in Farafina magazine of December 2007.He studied Linguistics and African Languages at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. He is currently a Fulbright foreign language teacher of Yoruba in the Fulbright 2009/10 FLTA Program at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA. He also has a travel blog and can be found on twitter.
Entries by this Author
A Short History of My Face - By Kola Tubosun
- By Kola Tubosun
- Published May 11, 2010
- Features
- Unrated
Earlier in one lone week out of the now many blurry ones in my childhood memory, my father had unknowingly satisfied too much of my recurring curiosity by telling me how he got the tribal marks on his own face. He was born in the early forties when it was still acceptable and admirable for parents from his side of Yorubaland to scarify the faces of their children as markers of culture, tribe, social standing or just plain beauty...Home Alone, Traveller - Poems by Kola Tubosun
- By Kola Tubosun
- Published December 6, 2009
- Poetry
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A new man peers across a ledge, pondering time, pondering faces;and only a thicket of quiet responds, louder than a din of dank spaces.
It bobs, it weaves a yarn of times. It reeks of a kind of cold, sour breath,
of stories told again and again; a non-listening ear. A certain death.
It is silent here now, as memory plays roughly along the helm of choice...