An Effusive Nomination for - I found my voice'

I have just received this effusive nomination!

To Whom It May Concern

Full Name of Nominee: Dr. Olu Ojedokun

Brief about the Nominee:

The nominee is by training a lawyer, by vocation a University lecturer and by avocation a committed activist and political commentator.

For over three decades he has been a consistent, coherent and compelling voice agitating in the behalf of the Nigerian masses in their struggle for a better existence. He has fearlessly 'spoken truth to power' through his various socio-political writings on social, electronic and online media platforms.

Nominee Works e.g Website links(news publications,blog page,online pages etc),

'I Found My Voice' is a riveting autobiographical account which charts the course of the author's life from the early days of his nativity in England through to his return to his native Nigeria and continuing right through to his exciting formative years at King's College, Lagos and his extraordinary undergraduate years at the University of Ife. It chronicles his various adventures, challenges, victories, and encounters with numerous notable and everyday personalities in these institutions and beyond. He draws interesting parallels between episodes in his life and those in the life of his country, Nigeria. He celebrates it successes and occasionally bemoans its (Nigeria's) loss of direction and sense of purpose as a progressive and promising nation. He is, however, quick to propose and proffer solutions to the rectify the endless maladies that seem to afflict it at will.

Overall, 'I Have Found My Voice' is an engaging book which entertains and enlightens and erects a bridge in the imagination of readers of a certain (middle) age. Across this bridge they can travel to and fro - to past and present - to rediscover, revive and relive precious memories of people and the places that they have been; to review where they are at, at present; and to resolve to continue onward in their travel to places yet undiscovered, as their life journeys continue to unfold. In setting out on this quest, like the author, all they have to do is 'find their voices', tell their stories and let them be heard by their generation.

Nomination Category:

Non-fiction Writer of the Year; Motivational Writer of the the Year and; Writer of the Year.

Submitted by Sheyi Oriade