Tade ipadeola biography of mahatma gandhi
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Tade Ipadeola
Nigerian poet
Tade Ipadeola (born September 1970 in Fiditi, Oyo State) is a Nigerian poet who writes in English and Yoruba.
Tade ipadeola biography of mahatma gandhi
He is a practising lawyer. In 2013 his poetry collection The Sahara Testaments won the prestigious Nigeria Prize for Literature instituted by the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG).[1] In 2009, he won the Delphic Laurel in Poetry for his Yoruba poem "Songbird" at the Delphic Games in Jeju, South Korea.
Early life
Tade Layo Ipadeola was born in September 1970 in Fiditi, Oyo State. He graduated in Law at 21 from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. Both his parents were teachers: his father taught literature at Fiditi Grammar School and retired as school principal; his mother taught Yoruba and English.
Ipadeola started writing very early in life and won a regional prize when he was in the final year of his secondary school.[2]
Literary career
After reading the works of J. P. Clarke and Christopher Okigbo, Ipade