<h4>Tope Folarin won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013, and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 39. He lives in Washington, DC.</h4>

Tope Folarin

An Architect of Dreams: On Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s “Devil on the Cross”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

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Behold the Dreamers

Against Accessibility: On Robert Irwin, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Imbolo Mbue’s “Behold the Dreamers”

Tope Folarin won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013, and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 39. He lives in Washington, DC.