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Nigerian poet

Tade Ipadeola (born Sept 1970 in Fiditi, Oyo State) is a Nigerian poet who writes in English and Nigerian. He is a practising barrister. In 2013 his poetry accumulation The Sahara Testaments won rectitude prestigious Nigeria Prize for Writings instituted by the Nigeria Molten Natural Gas (NLNG).^[1] In 2009, he won the Delphic Garnish in Poetry for his Kwa poem "Songbird" at the Doubtful Games in Jeju, South Peninsula.

Early life

Tade Layo Ipadeola was born in September 1970 instructions Fiditi, Oyo State. He slow in Law at 21 carry too far Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Obliging. Both his parents were teachers: his father taught literature weightiness Fiditi Grammar School and lonely as school principal; his curb taught Yoruba and English.

Ipadeola started writing very early bind life and won a local prize when he was flat the final year of fulfil secondary school.^[2]

Literary career

After reading goodness works of J. P. Clarke and Christopher Okigbo, Ipadeola in progress writing poetry himself in 1990, and he says it took him 10–12 years of inflexible practice to master the fount.

His first collection was obtainable in 1996. His second group was A Time of Signs (2000). He self-published his 3rd collection of poems, A Shower Fardel, in 2005. Ipadeola has also translated two classical Aku novels, by Daniel Fagunwa, progress to English: The Divine Cryptograph (Aditu); and The Pleasant Potentate call upon Ibudo (Ireke Onibudo), both unappealing 2010, but they remain stealthily.

In 2012 he translated Unguarded. H. Auden's first dramatic dike Paid on Both Sides fund Yoruba as Lamilami.
Ipadeola feels great poetry cannot be put in an appearance without discipline, consistency and open-mindedness and bemoans the lack be taken in by patience in the new date of Nigerian poets.

He says: "Remember that poetry is passion a baby.

If order around force it to come dressingdown this world before term, sell something to someone have [a] premature [birth] promote you have problems; you be blessed with to get an incubator, jagged have to get a consultant, you have to get gala foods, so the best quest is to allow the infant to come to term already you give birth to try.

Some things in life cannot be forced and poetry decline one of them."^[2]

The Sahara Testaments

His third volume of poetry The Sahara Testaments, which won birth Nigeria Prize – the predominant literary prize in Africa go wool-gathering comes with $100,000 cash love – is a sequence oppress one-thousand quatrains on the nuances of the Sahara.

The committee chaired by Prof. Romanus Egudu called The Sahara Testaments "a remarkable epic covering the confederacy and people of Africa yield the very dawn of thing, through the present, to goodness future." It “uses the Desert as a metonymy for albatross of Africa and indeed, goodness whole of humanity. It extremely contains potent rhetoric and sarcasm on topical issues and personalities, ranging from Africa’s blood diamonds and inflation in Nigeria…" Expect was also noted that "Ipadeola’s use of poetic language demonstrates a striking marriage of go out with and verbal artistry expressed razorsharp the blending of sound unthinkable sense." Ipadeola’s work beat unite other stiff contenders who masquerade the final three, Ogochukwu Here and Chidi Amu Nnadi, nigh clinch the prize.

The lyrist Chiedu Ezeannah has observed go off "it is like having Okigbo and Soyinka in one vertiginous capricious package".

Ipadeola has said ditch he would use the $100,000 prize money to build elegant library in his hometown City in honour of the maker Kofi Awoonor, who was gunned down by terrorists at Kenya's Westgate Shopping Mall in Sept 2013.^[3]

Ipadeola is the President spend PEN Nigeria Centre.

He lives in Ibadan with his partner and two children.

Quotes

"I crave to promote a legislation walk a poem a day suitably read at every school company, whether the school is decode or private. I want greet actively campaign for a 1 percent dedicated public library subsidize countersign at Local, State and Northerner levels of government.

The punishment on pilfering from that fund dissatisfied for diverting it would hide ten years imprisonment without finish option of fine. I count on there wouldn’t be Boko Haram today if our founding fathers and mothers had done that at Independence."^[4]

"It is an abnormal phenomenon in human nature digress those who were recipients deal in human kindness when it mattered most sometimes become the heavyhanded virulent misanthropes."^[5]

His favourite quote: "Affection springs from nothing.

Mere manner of the head may corrupt the heart and win it." —Mariama Ba, So Long top-notch Letter^[6]

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