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In his debut poetry collection, Adam, the late Gboyega Odubanjo resists simply recounting the tragic plight of his subject, ‘Adam’, who is inspired by the unidentified Black boy whose torso was discovered in the River Thames in 2001.
Dec 8, 2024
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About the Author
(b. Kamolideen Oluwapelumi Arasi) is an English Language and Literature undergraduate at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. A poetry editor at Hominum Journal, he was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Academic Writing Prize in 2020. In 2023, he won the E. E. SULE/SEVHAGE Prize for African Literary Criticism.



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