Tolu Ogunlesi
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Tolu Ogunlesi (born 1983) is a Nigerian journalist, poet, photographer, fiction writer, and blogger.
President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Ogunlesi as his Special Assistant on Digital/New Media on February 18, 2016.
Early life and education
Ogunlesi was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Nigerian parents and has spent the majority of his life in Nigeria. He attended the International School in Ibadan. He also graduated from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 2004. Pharm. He obtained a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, the United Kingdom.
Career
He is the author of a collection of poetry, Listen to the Geckos Singing from a Balcony (Bewrite Books, 2004), as well as a novella, Conquest & Conquest & Conquest & Conquest (2008). PEN Anthology of New Nigerian Writing, Wasafiri, Farafina, Penta, Kitro, Orbis, Nano2ales, Stimulus Response, Sable, Magma, Stanford's Black Arts Quarterly, and World Literature Today are among the publications in which his fiction and poetry have appeared.
In 2008, he received a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry award, and the University of Birmingham awarded a Cadbury Visiting Fellowship. In 2009 (the Arts and Culture Award) and in 2013 (Coca-Cola Company Economics & Business Award), as well as being shortlisted for the inaugural PEN/Studzinski literary award, he has twice been a winner of the annual CNN Multichoice African Journalist Awards.
He has been contributing to Tell Magazine, The Guardian (Lagos), Daily Independent (Nigeria), New Age, Forbes Africa, Forbes Africa, Financial Times, Huffington, Business Day (Nigeria), and Premium Times as a journalist. He served as Arts Manager Nigeria for the British Council from 2011 to 2012, and as a West Africa reporter for The Africa Report magazine from 2014 to 2015. He was a 2015 New Media Fellow of the International Visitor Leadership Program of the US State Department. (IVLP)
"I started with poetry," he wrote about his writing career. Solemn Avenue was inspired by Helon Habila's Waiting for an Angel as I tried my hand at fiction for the first time. And then I moved to journalism — magazine articles, interviews, satire, and opinion pieces. I've tried my hand at radio drama and television scripting. This year, I would like to write a full-length play. Looking back, I think I've become familiar with constantly expanding the possibilities of my writing, as well as refusing to allow myself to be restricted by any particular genre."
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari named Ogunlesi as his Special Assistant on Digital/New Media on February 18, 2016.
In June 2022, he was accepted for a Weatherhead fellowship at Harvard University.