Tope Adeboboye
Tope Adeboboye writes for Nigeria's King of the Tabloids, Lagos-based The Sun newspapers. A former Senior Correspondent with Saturday Punch, Tope has won a couple of awards, including the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award's Features Writer of the Year (2000/2001) and the International Library of Poetry's Editor's Choice Award. He currently lives in the United States.
Articles by this Author
Ebenezer Obey: I Had My Share Of Drinking And Womanizing
- By Tope Adeboboye
- Published 12/11/2007
- Interviews & Profiles
- Unrated
"Nigeria’s future is bright...The country will be better. Good days are ahead. I will just want the government to take care of the Niger Delta people. It pleases God to put the oil in their region. So let them enjoy the wealth from that oil..." - Ebenezer Obey
The Ayuba Story
- By Tope Adeboboye
- Published 10/10/2006
- Interviews & Profiles
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"My dream is to achieve with fuji music what Bob Marley was able to achieve with Reggae...I will become a fulfilled person the day fuji music attains such a height." - Ayuba
A Day with Olusesan Ekisola, Raypower FM's Pioneer GM
- By Tope Adeboboye
- Published 08/18/2006
- Interviews & Profiles
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"The reason why our people keep having these fantasies about America is 
because the American government spends billions of dollars to project their country as the ultimate paradise on earth. But when you get here, you discover that what you've been seeing on your TV back home is not the real America..."
- Olusesan Ekisola
Agony Of A Continent
- By Tope Adeboboye
- Published 07/3/2006
- Arts & Reviews
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Africa's journey since the first contact with the Portuguese in the late 1490s is what Howard French passionately takes us through in his new book, A Continent For The Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa...
The Yoke of Hamburgers...
- By Tope Adeboboye
- Published 06/1/2006
- Life Abroad
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"I don't want to go to Lagos. There shall be no peace inside this plane in Jesus name unless I am released. I don't want to go to Nigeria. I am being punished for nothing. Jesus, save me from this persecution. Save me O Lord. Release me from this bondage O Lord."
"Women are dangerous" - Conversation with Tony Tetuila
- By Tope Adeboboye
- Published 06/1/2006
- Interviews & Profiles
- Unrated
So long as you are a microphone man, you are a star and ladies will always be around you. But there's always a diplomatic way of discouraging them. Women are dangerous. You have to be careful the way you deal with them, because women can lift you up and if you aint careful, they will pull you down...
A Witness to these Times...Conversation with Akin Adesokan
- By Tope Adeboboye
- Published 05/2/2006
- Interviews & Profiles
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"My writing is an attempt to bear an honest witness to my time, to the experience I have as a human being, as a Nigerian, as an African. The African experience – slavery, wars, colonialism, diseases, neo-colonialism..." - Akin Adesokan
Oshodi: Mud And Muck, After Rain
- By Tope Adeboboye
- Published 10/10/2003
- Nigeria Matters
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Don’t allow your wife to take what rightly belongs to you to another man. Come and pick up an envelope…
