Tope
Folarin

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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Non-Fiction
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