Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two masters’ degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.
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Big Brother
by Tope Folarin
Tope Folarin writes on the ways in which reality television, far from offering a refuge from everyday worries, serves as a crucible in which social tensions come to the fore.
