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OluTimehin Kukoyi in Oslo in 2018

OluTimehin Kukoyi (née Adegbeye) (born 3 October 1991) is a Nigerian writer, essayist and public intellectual.[1] Her work concentrates on questions of gender, sexuality, urbanism and feminism. She also writes fiction.[2][3]

Career

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Kukoyi regularly writes about politics, gender and other social issues on This Is Africa, Africa Is A Country, Bella Naija, and other publications.[4] Her writing has been published in different languages, notably English, Japanese and Norwegian. She is a stringer for the Norwegian magazine Bistandsaktuelt[5] and has also been published by Klassekampen.[6][7] Her work in Norwegian has been used as background for textbooks for Norwegian junior colleges.[8]

Kukoyi was a speaker at TEDGlobal in 2017,[9] where she gave her talk 'Who Belongs in a City?"[10]. The talk was eventually selected by TED lead curator Chris Anderson as one of the ten most notable talks of the year.[11] In 2015, she participated in the Farafina Trust's Creative Writing Workshop in Lagos.[12] She is an alumna of the FEMRITE[13] workshop in Uganda (2014) and the BRITDOC Queer Impact Producers Lab (2017).[14]

OluTimehin Kukoyi is a prominent figure among Nigerian and African feminists of her generation.[15] Through her website,[16] blog,[17] Twitter,[18] journalism, public speaking and online activism, she has gained a wide readership among feminists and activists. She is known for the way she combines her experiences as a queer person and mother in Nigerian society with gender theory and social struggles. Besides the TED stage, she has also spoken at global conferences like the AWID forum, the inaugural Urban 20 Summit, the Oslo Urban Arena, the Women Deliver Conference and the Up Close and Liveable festival, as well as at various universities.

She was awarded the 2019 Gerald Kraak Prize for her nonfiction piece "Mothers and Men".[19]

She was a staff writer at The Correspondent, working as the 'Othering Correspondent' until the digital publication shut down in January 2021.[20]

OluTimehin is the co-founder of Square, a creative consultancy based in Lagos, Nigeria.[21][22]

References

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  1. ^ Mishra, Pankaj; Gregory, Alice (24 November 2015). "Is It Still Possible to be a Public Intellectual?". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "About Olutimehin Kukoyi". OhTimehin.com.
  3. ^ "One Quiet Night". AFREADA - stories from home. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
  4. ^ "Olutimehin Adegbeye, Author at This Is Africa". This Is Africa. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  5. ^ "Vi lever et liv i konstant motvind". NoradDev (in Norwegian). 27 March 2017. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  6. ^ "Landranerne herjer i Lagos". Klassekampen. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  7. ^ "Krigen mot de fattige: Den planlagte hjemløsheten". afrika.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  8. ^ "Politikk og makt - versjon 2: Kapittel 29 - Brudd på menneskerettighetene". politikkogmakt-versjon2.cappelendamm.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  9. ^ "TEDGlobal 2017: August 27–30, Arusha, Tanzania". tedglobal2017.ted.com. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  10. ^ Adegbeye, OluTimehin (8 September 2017), Who belongs in a city?, retrieved 2019-07-15
  11. ^ TED, Curator's Picks: Top 10 TED Talks of 2017, retrieved 2019-07-15
  12. ^ Books, Farafina (2015-06-03). "Selected Participants: 2015 Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop". Farafina Books. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  13. ^ "First Non-fiction workshop". FEMRITE - Uganda Women Writers Association. 2016-07-25. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  14. ^ "Britdoc". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  15. ^ temitopebenson. "Arese Ugwu, Dami Elebe, Mr. Eazi, Kelechi Iheanacho & More! See YNaija's List for 'The New Establishment' 2017 | TIC Media". theinterviewcentral.com. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  16. ^ "Welcome | OluTimehin Kukoyi". www.olukukoyi.com. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
  17. ^ "OluTimehin – Medium". medium.com. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  18. ^ "OluTimehin Kukoyi (@olukukoyi) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  19. ^ "The 2019 Gerald Kraak Prize Goes to Nigeria's OluTimehin Adegbeye", Brittle paper, 23 May 2019.
  20. ^ "The Correspondent will stop publishing on 1 January 2021. We'd like to thank our members for their support". 10 December 2020.
  21. ^ "Home - Square Agency". April 2021.
  22. ^ Othering Correspondent -OlutimehinAdegbeye The Correspondent, Retrieved 2020-11-20
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