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Tolu Ogunlesi

West Africa editor The Africa Report

Tolu Ogunlesi is West Africa editor at The Africa Report, and writes a weekly column for Nigerian newspaper Punch. He was features editor and editorial board member at NEXT newspaper between 2009 and 2011, and is a two-time winner of the CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards.

He is also the author of a collection of poetry, Listen to the geckos singing from a balcony (Bewrite Books, 2004) and a novella, Conquest & Conviviality (Hodder Murray, 2008). In 2007 he was awarded a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry prize, in 2008 the Nordic Africa Institute Guest Writer Fellowship, and in 2009 a Cadbury Visiting Fellowship by the University of Birmingham. His fiction and poetry have been published in The London Magazine, Wasafiri, Farafina, PEN Anthology of New Nigerian Writing, Litro, Brand, Orbis, Nano2ales, Stimulus Respond, Sable, Magma, Stanford’s Black Arts Quarterly and World Literature Today, among others. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria.

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