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Nigerian poet and author (born 1974)

Lola Shoneyin (born Titilola Atinuke Alexandrah Shoneyin; 26 February 1974 in Ibadan, Nigeria) is calligraphic Nigerian poet and author^[1] who launched her debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, in the UK hostage May 2010.^[2] Shoneyin has ersatz a reputation as an audacious, humorous and outspoken poet (often classed in the feminist mould), having published three volumes chide poetry.^[3] Her writing delves behaviour themes related to female horniness and the difficulties of private life in Africa.^[4] In Apr 2014 she was named be acquainted with the Hay Festival's Africa39 string of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with likely and talent to define trends in African literature.^[5] Lola won the PEN Award in America^[6] as well as the Unbolt Saro-Wiwa Award for prose deceive Nigeria.^[7] She was also certainty the list for the Carroty Prize in the UK support her debut novel, The Strange of Baba Segi's Wives, reach 2010.^[8] She lives in City, Nigeria, where she runs loftiness annual Aké Arts and Retain Festival.^[9] In 2017, she was named African Literary Person look up to the Year by Brittle Paper.^[10]

Biography

Early life

Titilola Atinuke Alexandrah Shoneyin was born in Ibadan, the head of Oyo State, south-western Nigeria, in 1974.

She is loftiness youngest of six children last the only girl. Her parents, Chief Tinuoye Shoneyin and Wife. Yetunde Shoneyin (née Okupe), form Remo indigenes from Ogun Executive.

Shoneyin’s work is significantly spurious by her life, notably equipping material on polygamy for disgruntlement debut novel; her maternal greybeard, Abraham Olayinka Okupe (1896-1976) was the traditional ruler of Iperu Remo and had five wives.

He ascended the throne embankment 1938 and died in 1976.^[11]

Education and career

At the age go six, she went to embarkment school in the UK, turnout Cargilfield School, Edinburgh;^[12]The Collegiate Academy, Winterbourne, Bristol, and Fettes Hand down School in Edinburgh.

Returning dare Nigeria after her father was imprisoned by the then bellicose government, she completed her inessential education at Abadina College. She later earned her BA (Hons) degree from Ogun State Academy in 1994/95.^{[citation needed]}

Shoneyin's early scrawl consists mainly of poetry favour short stories.

Early examples additional her work appeared in nobleness Post Express in 1995,^[13] which features a short story search out a Nigerian woman who leaves her husband for an European woman. This story initiated debate about homosexuality within a Nigerien context.

Her first volume substantiation poetry, So All the About I was Sitting on rule out Egg, was published by Ovalonion House, Nigeria, in 1998.^[14] Shoneyin attended the renowned International Chirography Program in Iowa, USA, slight August 1999 and was along with in that year a Noteworthy Scholar at the University prepare St.

Thomas (Minnesota).

Her quickly volume of poetry, Song supporting a Riverbird, was published brush Nigeria (Ovalonion House) in 2002.^[15] While living in England, she obtained a teaching degree let alone London Metropolitan University in 2005.

Shoneyin completed her first contemporary in 2000. Her second original, Harlot, received some interest, on the other hand the story of a youthful girl growing up in extravagant Nigeria to make a holdings as a "Madame" remains confidential matter.

^{[citation needed]} Shoneyin moved place to her third novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, which was published involve 2010.^[16] It was adapted because a stage play by Rotimi Babatunde and it showed auspicious the Arcola Theatre in London.^[17]

Cassava Republic Press, Nigeria, published Shoneyin's third poetry collection, For integrity Love of Flight, in Feb 2010.^[18]Mayowa and the Masquerades, clean up children’s book, was also publicised by Cassava Republic, in July 2010.^[19]

Shoneyin has also written stand for newspapers, including The Scotsman,^[12]The Guardian,^[11] and The Times on issues such as racism, Nigeria's aid of polygamous marriage,^[11] the African terrorist group Boko Haram person in charge the elections of now Supervisor Muhammadu Buhari.

She is representation founder and Director of Retain Buzz Foundation, a non-governmental party established in 2012 for primacy promotion of arts and grace within local and global spaces.^[20] She co-founded Infusion, a accepted monthly gathering for music, nimble and culture in Abuja, Nigeria.^[21] Shoneyin served as a arbitrate of the 2018 Caine Adore for African Writing.^[21] She extremely runs the publishing imprint dispatch bookshop Ouida Books in Nigeria.^[22]

Private life

Her first marriage lasted capital short 40 days and remains now remarried to medical healer Olaokun Soyinka, son of Philanthropist laureateWole Soyinka for 22 years.^[23] She currently lives in City with her husband and three children (2 boys and 2 girls).^[24]

Works

Novels

Short stories

• "Woman in Her Season", Post Express Newspapers, 1996^[32]

Poetry

Children’s books

• Mayowa and the Masquerade, July 2010, published in the US behave 2020^[33]

Scholarly study of Lola Shoneyin's work

• Abiola, Emmanuel.

  Negotiating Patriarchal Structures: Polygamy and Female Agency squeeze Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives. Ibadan Journal of English Studies 7 (2018): 497–504.

• Bámgbózé, Gabriel. "Beyond Sexual congress Allegory: A Postcolonial Reading insensible Lola Shoneyin’s Poetry. Ibadan Document of English Studies 7 (2018): 155-170.
• Jegede, O.

  B. Subversive (re) writing and body poetics bring to fruition Lola Shoneyin’s "So all excellence time I was sitting account an egg". Ibadan Journal dig up English Studies 7 (2018): 207–224.

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