Journalist, poet, blogger, and public servant, Tolu Ogunlesi, has ‘been meaning to start blogging again’. He finds, however, that social media is ‘making us worse communicators: too quick to comment, disdainful of nuance, easily carried away by insignificant stuff, and oblivious to the truly significant.’
Our questions are italicized.
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up?
All sorts. The earliest book I remember reading is an Illustrated Children’s Bible. You
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