Adefolami A. - Experienced Content Writer with a demonstrated history of working in the public relations and communications industry.

Adefolami A.

Experienced Content Writer with a demonstrated history of working in the public relations and communications industry.

Nigeria | Africa/Lagos (USD)

$24/hr
Part-time:10-30 hrs/week
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ABOUT ME

Adefolami Ademola is a writer and social commentator.

His poems have appeared in Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Prosopisia (India), New Orleans Review (USA), Poetry Potion (South Africa), New York Literary Magazine (USA), Prachya Review (Bangladesh), heART Online (USA), among others.

A 2016 PIN (Poets in Nigeria) Poets’ Residency Fellow, his poem, “Memories, regurgitated” was a finalist for the 2016 edition of the Korea/Nigeria Cultural Poetry Fiesta.

His nonfiction pieces have been published in Akoma, Kalahari Review, The Nerve Africa, The Afro Vibe, Ynaija, Newshunter, Ebedi Review, Entropy Magazine, Ktravula, Anathema Magazine, to mention a few.

His personal essay Dying in Installments was recently published in the print edition of the Selves Anthology of Creative Nonfiction. In the same here, another essay of his, A Half-Formed Thing was published in Anathema Magazine (Canada)

In 2019, he moderated a panel tagged Nonfiction And The Writer’s Prerogative at Kaduna Book and Arts Festival in Kaduna. The panel had in attendance Sibongile Fisher (Winner, Short Story Day Africa Prize, 2016), Frances Ogamba (winner, Kofi Addo Prize For Nonfiction, 2019), and Hauwa Nuhu Shafii. Also in 2019, he moderated another panel titled Intimacy And The Exploration Of Self: New Nonfiction Writing at Ake Festival. The panel had in attendance Tolu Daniel, Howard Maximus and Sibongile Fisher.

He is Marketing Manager at Ouida Books and Bookstore Manager at Ake Arts and Book Festival.

SKILLS

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY OUTSIDE OF TOOGIT

Marketing Manager/Content Writer/Editor

Ouida Books - Mar, 2018 to present, Lagos, Nigeria

Public Relations Executive/Content Writer

WNT Capitas - Apr, 2017 to Oct, 2017, Lagos, Nigeria

Content Writer

The Nerve Africa - Jan, 2017 to Mar, 2017, Lagos, Nigeria

EDUCATION HISTORY

B.A, Theatre Arts

(2010 - 2014) Lagos State University