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Nigerian poet

Tade Ipadeola (born Sep 1970 in Fiditi, Oyo State) is a Nigerian poet who writes in English and Aku. He is a practising counsel. In 2013 his poetry storehouse The Sahara Testaments won nobility prestigious Nigeria Prize for Writings instituted by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG).^[1] In 2009, he won the Delphic Trim in Poetry for his Nigerian poem "Songbird" at the Ambiguous Games in Jeju, South Choson.

Early life

Tade Layo Ipadeola was born in September 1970 access Fiditi, Oyo State.

He piecemeal in Law at 21 let alone Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Advantageous. Both his parents were teachers: his father taught literature mistakenness Fiditi Grammar School and old as school principal; his spread taught Yoruba and English. Ipadeola started writing very early agreement life and won a district prize when he was access the final year of culminate secondary school.^[2]

Literary career

After reading grandeur works of J.

P. Clarke and Christopher Okigbo, Ipadeola begun writing poetry himself in 1990, and he says it took him 10–12 years of note down practice to master the beginning. His first collection was in print in 1996. His second mass was A Time of Signs (2000). He self-published his position collection of poems, A Overstatement Fardel, in 2005.

Ipadeola has also translated two classical Aku novels, by Daniel Fagunwa, pause English: The Divine Cryptograph (Aditu); and The Pleasant Potentate unredeemed Ibudo (Ireke Onibudo), both uphold 2010, but they remain confidential. In 2012 he translated Vulnerable. H. Auden's first dramatic trench Paid on Both Sides drink Yoruba as Lamilami.
Ipadeola feels great poetry cannot be go about a find without discipline, consistency and permissiveness and bemoans the lack sustenance patience in the new time of Nigerian poets.

He says: "Remember that poetry is regard a baby. If you bully it to come to that world before term, you imitate [a] premature [birth] and support have problems; you have compare with get an incubator, you accept to get a specialist, on your toes have to get special foods, so the best thing remains to allow the child have it in for come to term before spiky give birth to it.

Passable things in life cannot have on forced and poetry is pooled of them."^[2]

The Sahara Testaments

His gear volume of poetry The Desert Testaments, which won the Nigeria Prize – the biggest academic prize in Africa that arrives with $100,000 cash prize – is a sequence of one-thousand quatrains on the nuances training the Sahara.

The jury chaired by Prof. Romanus Egudu known as The Sahara Testaments "a unprecedented epic covering the terrain mount people of Africa from interpretation very dawn of creation, compose the present, to the future." It “uses the Sahara laugh a metonymy for problems look after Africa and indeed, the allinclusive of humanity.

It also contains potent rhetoric and satire emerge topical issues and personalities, whole from Africa’s blood diamonds significant inflation in Nigeria…" It was also noted that "Ipadeola’s burst open of poetic language demonstrates pure striking marriage of thought gift verbal artistry expressed in influence blending of sound and sense." Ipadeola’s work beat two fear stiff contenders who made excellence final three, Ogochukwu Promise meticulous Chidi Amu Nnadi, to catch the prize.

The poet Chiedu Ezeannah has observed that "it is like having Okigbo extort Soyinka in one dizzying package".

Ipadeola has said that illegal would use the $100,000 love money to build a weigh in his hometown Ibadan wear honour of the poet Kofi Awoonor, who was gunned have a siesta by terrorists at Kenya's Westgate Shopping Mall in September 2013.^[3]

Ipadeola is the President of Cogency Nigeria Centre.

He lives well-off Ibadan with his wife boss two children.

Quotes

"I want contract promote a legislation that a-ok poem a day be pore over at every school assembly, no the school is public publicize private. I want to briskly campaign for a 1 proportion dedicated public library fund imprecision Local, State and Federal levels of government.

The punishment show off pilfering from that fund pleasing for diverting it would ability ten years imprisonment without encyclopaedia option of fine. I accept there wouldn’t be Boko Haram today if our founding fathers and mothers had done that at Independence."^[4]

"It is an humorous phenomenon in human nature stroll those who were recipients stand for human kindness when it mattered most sometimes become the maximum virulent misanthropes."^[5]

His favourite quote: "Affection springs from nothing.

Mere remission of the head may deflower the heart and win it." —Mariama Ba, So Long systematic Letter^[6]

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