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Akin Adesokan:
journalist, critic, columnist and award winning author.
A writer, journalist, critic, columnist and author of Roots
in the Sky and Sea of Forgetting, Akin Adesokan is a prominent
voice within the struggles for political change in Nigeria.
He was imprisoned for several months by the infamous Abacha
military regime that took the pauperization and looting
of Nigeria to unprecedented heights. Mr Adesokan has received
several awards, including the 1998 PEN Center USA West Freedom
To Write award, the first Villa Aurora Writer-In-Exile Award
and a fellowship at the International House of Writers in
Austria. Also a winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors
(ANA) Prose Prize, Adesokan was a visiting scholar at the
University of California, LA, he has taught at Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY and is in the process of completing his doctorate.
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