My name is Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, and this is my travel blog.

Not that young anymore, but I always loved this photo from November 2009, taken by one of the SIUE students in my Yorùbá class.

I started writing here in August of 2009 at the beginning of a Fulbright Fellowship to the United States. It was my first time of leaving the African continent and I wanted a space to record my observations, interests, vocations, experiences, and classroom memories.

I thought of shutting it down many years after, even after I returned to Nigeria. But I’ve heard from a number of people who found the experiences I recorded helpful for their own trips, either for research, for education, or for pleasure. So I kept it up, even through my two-year graduate school at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2010-2012), my return to Nigeria afterwards, and through a number of important events. In August 2019, I returned abroad for a Chevening Research Fellowship at the British Library in London. A few writings from that time survived here, and more will come when I recover a few more spare moments to put the memories into comprehensible prose.

I don’t know for how long the blog will remain up. For now, feel free to enjoy a record of over ten years of traveling, experiencing the world as a Nigerian (still), and sharing my thoughts on a number of subjects that interest me.

A more formal website of my work and interests is at www.kolatubosun.com.