ADEKOLA, OLOMIDE AND
OGUNSOLA TO HEADLINE IBADAN BOOK PARTY
Ibadan Book Club (IBC) has set aside 18th day of December,
2021 to host four Ibadan based writers, Emmanuel
Adekola, Olomide Fatiha
and Ogunsola Ayooluwa Folakunmi in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State
for its 2021 Ibadan Book Party.
A
statement issued by both the Coordinator and Secretary of the club, Ayobami
Odunyemi and Mary
Ndukwo said the event would take place at
the Oyo State Library Board, Opposite Cocoa House, Ibadan by 12PM prompt.
Below are short
profiles of Ibadan Book Club’s Guest Writers for the month of December, 2021.
ADEKOLA
EMMANUEL ADEBOWALE’s pen name is Wale Adekola. He hails from
Ilesha East, Osun state, and was born in Ilesha on the 14th, June, 1994. Wale Adekola
is a literary scholar and teacher; he has trained several pupils and students
at various academic levels: primary, secondary and A'level schools such as:
First Class Prevarsity, Idi-ape, Teekay tutorials, Owode, Al-aleem Model
College, Olunde, Real Educational Consult (REC), UI, etc., and he currently
teaches A'level classes at Winners Academy, Olorunkemi, Ibadan.
Wale Adekola completed
his basic education at Olomi Community Primary School in 2006 and attended
Eleta High School from 2006-2011. Due to some academic challenges, he was only
able to get good SSCE results in 2015; and got admitted into tertiary
institution in 2018. He is currently a junior with 3.7 cgpa out of a total 4.0
at the prestigious University of Ibadan where he studies English and
Literature.
His writing experience
started in 2013 when he wrote a first draft of a work then titled "The
Clowns" but now "Our Buffalos". He had grown very interested in
Literature since his second year in senior high school. And now, he has been
writing good materials across the three genres of Literature. The titles
include: i. Our Buffalos (prose), ii. Dual Paradigms of Now (prose), iii. a
Humane Robber (drama), iv. Who is Olukubu? (Drama), v. Songs of Hope through a
Penitent's Journey (poetry).
Though once completely
clueless, Wale Adekola had trained himself assiduously through the years such
that he now edits even other people's works. He acted as chief editor of recent
works titled: "Glittering Quill" (poetry) by Gabriel Oluwalana and "Unlocking
your Potentials" by Samuel Chibueze Okonkwo, LL.B, Ibadan. Since after his
first trial of literature, his works have always been proofread and edited to
perfection by himself as confirmed by Mrs Akinyemi MA, English, Ibadan and Dr
Efunwole, Iree. He now also serves as the in-house editor at Spring Creative
Publication, a recent publishing company founded by Gabriel Oluwalana. In
August, 2021, he became a member of Wikipedia.
His debut, Our
Buffalos, is currently being produced. Wale Adekola hopes to keep writing our
stories as true as they are even when the land demands one's own blood to write
even a piece of truth!
OLOMIDE
FATIHA is a 16 year old girl. She just finished her Senior
Secondary Certificate Examination from The International School, University of
Ibadan . She's the convener of Our Future is Now project, where they build and
sharpen professional, moral and leadership skills in teenagers.
She has had a couple of
activities in the last two years which included a seminar where professionals
from different fields were invited to share with teenagers some life
experiences on how to achieve a purposeful future. She also led a walk
involving over 500 youths in Ibadan against the Out of School syndrome which is
unfortunately becoming rampant in our society. She has also taken the campaign
to the doorstep of the state governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde.
Her primary focus is to
see children left on the streets back to school to achieve a purposeful future.
She wants to make a positive impact on her generation. She desires to be a
champion of positive change. She doesn’t intend to do this alone, she’s
building a team of like minds to create a brighter future for all.
OGUNSOLA
AYOOLUWA FOLAKUNMI is a recent graduate of Tai Solarin University of
Education. He is a Young Motivated Environmental Activist, a Poet and Digital
Marketer.
To get Ayooluwa Talking, His areas of interest are: Campaign
Coordination, Volunteerism, Youth Coordination, Transformative Leadership, Peer
Monitoring, Gender Equality, Project Management, Research and Documentations,
Children and Youth Development, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Strategies , Strategies on Environmental Pollution Reduction. Ayooluwa Carried
out a project that hosted more than
180 people from more than 11 African Countries that brought him to the limelight
Due to his Indomitable attitude he as written Academic Research Papers with the
Habin Institute of Technology and International Arctic school on Issues on pollution in the Arctic region.
For the Last Three
years Ayooluwa has worked with reputable Organizations like, Green and Better
World Cameroon, Green Globe Initiative as The Head of Program Ogun state
Chapter, Quickteller as a Campus Ambassador.
Awards that are
attached to His name are: Certificate on Poetry / Anthology In Honor of the
former Governor of Oyo state Senator Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi, Winner of Hult
prize Campus, Winner of climate solution Mastermind class of 2018/19
Ayooluwa is currently
working on an innovative project that is quick getting attention. He was
selected as one of the Most enterprising
Student in Nigeria by Ideaslane Africa and Edusko Africa and was just given an
Eco champion Award at the International Climate Action Challenge.
He is Currently The
Youth Zonal Coordinator at Eco Diversified International and a Global Youth
Ambassador at Their world.
His works on poetry are
not yet published but he has done some readings of his poetry at the
international Youth summit. Some of his poems that are always requested for at
international Conferences are: Hopes with a Child with Autism, what would Our
son say?
He believes writing
poetry can be a tool for Environmental activism with people from various
cultures and Create opportunities that change our world one step at a time.
The
upcoming book reading event promises to be an avenue for reading creative works
such as poetry, fiction, book sales and signing, contacts with other readers
and book writers in all corners of the Oyo State, the statement added.
Prospective
writers who have works in poetry, short stories and novels can also attend to
read their works to other writers and readers. Membership forms and certificate
of membership will be available at no charge to first timers.
Ibadan
Book Club is an initiative of the Nigerian Young Writers Society. It was
founded in 2011 by SYNW in order to contribute its own quota to the growth and
development of the Reading Culture in Oyo State.
The
Ibadan Book Club consists of a group of people who meet, meet periodically to
discuss the book they have read and exchange those books. Club members
encourage each other and learn to read with a critical mind, articulating their
opinions about a particular book with others. Certain types of books not
available or read receive attention through the book club.
Some
of the publications published by Ibadan Book Club are: Olubadan Centennial
Anthology: a collection of essays, articles, poems and works of art in honor of
Oba (Dr.) Samuel Odulana, Odugade 1, Voices from Oja Oba Market and Finally,
Senator Abiola Ajimobi: Memories, Dreams, Reflections of a Mind Always in
Motion.
For participation and Enquiry, kindly call: 08164148985 , 08151978620
