Yahaya Balogun hails from Igbemo-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigerian. He is based in the United States of America. As a prolific writer and public intellectual, he has extensively written...view moreYahaya Balogun hails from Igbemo-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigerian. He is based in the United States of America. As a prolific writer and public intellectual, he has extensively written on Nigerian politics and policies to galvanize a positive change in Nigeria’s country of origin. As an advocate of good governance, his pungent writings on American and Nigerian affairs have continued to generate a massive readership on social media and traditional media and provoked many debates. The author had worked at the prestigious University of Lagos. He graduated with a Masters’s degree in Human Resource Management from the same University before moving to the United States.
Yahaya Balogun’s foray into Literature is not by happenstance or accident. As a university student, he had read voraciously the works of literary giants like Soyinka and Achebe and other prominent African authors he looked up to as role models. His poetry collection is his first baptism of fire in the real sense of it in the literary world, though he has many manuscripts yet to be published. Yahaya Balogun is married to a resourceful woman with beautiful children. His hobbies are jogging, reading, and writing.view less