Tade Ipadeola

Biography

Tade Ipadeola was born in 1970 in Fiditi, Oyo State. A lawyer and poet, he was awarded the 2013 NLNG Prize for his poetry collection titled The Sahara Testaments. Ipadeola has authored other poetry books, which include Voices: Interiors and Exteriors (1996), A Time of Signs (2000), and The Rain Fardel (2005). He attended Obafemi Awolowo University, where he graduated with a law degree in 1991. Ipadeola writes in English and Yoruba, and he has translated two classical Yoruba novels by D.O. Fagunwa into English: The Divine Cryptograph (Aditu) and The Pleasant Potentate of Ibudo (Ireke Onibudo). He was selected for the Iowa Writing Fellowship in 2019.

Birth Date

1979-01-01

Place of Birth

Yoruba

Country of Nationality

Nigeria

Languages Spoken

Yoruba, English

Obafemi Awolowo University

Poetry Collections

Voices: Interiors and Exteriors (General Graphics: Ibadan, 1996),
A Time of Signs (Intersect Publishers: Ibadan, 2000);
The Rain Fardel (Khalam Editions: Lagos, 2005);
The Sahara Testament (Khalam Editions: Lagos, 2012)

Sources

Akinwole, Tolu. "Playing with Poetry: A Conversation with Tade Ipadeola." African Writer Magazine, www.africanwriter.com/playing-with-poetry-a-conversation-with-tade-ipadeola/. Accessed 15 March 2022.
 
"Ipadeola Tade." IWP, www.iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/ipadeola-tade. Accessed 15 March 2022.