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          I spoke to Adelakun about her life as a political columnist, politics in the extraordinarily diverse and complex context of Nigeria, and what it's like to live..

          Huge in Nigeria: Q&A with Abimbola Adelakun

          Since she moved to the United States in 2010, Abimbola Adelakun has lived a kind of double life.

          In the U.S., she is a respected junior academic, first a graduate student and now an assistant professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.

          Enjoy this interview with the beautiful young lady who 'owns' a backpage column in Punch, arguably Nigeria's most popular newspaper.

        1. Doctoral Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin, Aug - Aug 4 years 1 month, Teach, Research, Write, Read, and More Writing.
        2. I spoke to Adelakun about her life as a political columnist, politics in the extraordinarily diverse and complex context of Nigeria, and what it's like to live.
        3. The interesting fact about the use of the incantations in the text is that Adelakun does not only use them to nativise her literary discourse but also.
        4. Abimbola is both a Yoruba surname and a unisex given name meaning "born with wealth".

          5. Last year she published her first academic book, Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism(Cambridge University Press, 2021). 

          In her native Nigeria, Adelakun is “a bit famous.” She is the author of a weekly political column for Punch, one of the most widely read newspapers in the country.

          Her column is read both at the highest levels of government and among the broad educated middle- and upper-classes. Her style is blunt and honest — “harsh,” she says — and committed to equal-opportunity criticism of whatever party or group is in power. 

          I spoke to Adelakun about her life as a political colum