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Ayọ̀délé Ìbíyẹmí

Yoruba

Ayọ̀délé Ìbíyẹmí is a researcher, critic and writer from Nigeria. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife where he studied Life Writing from Nigerian and the African Diaspora as a  student of Literature in English. He was a Wawa Book Review Young Literary Critic Fellow in 2018 and I won the Ken Saro Wiwa Critical Review Prize in 2019. He has since consulted for and worked with media  and not for profit organizations. He currently teaches Yorùbá language to students from the African Diaspora while volunteering for NGVoices, a decentralized community informing Nigerians on their role in civic, political & governance participation in English and other Nigerian languages. I have written review of books, movies and music for several publications.