Toyin adewale-gabriel biography of william hill

Toyin Adewale-Gabriel is a Nigerian poet, short story writer, literary critic and activist. She was cofounder and coordinator for several years of the Association of Women Writers of Nigeria.

Toyin Adewale-Gabriel (born ) is a Nigerian writer.

She has won awards for her poetry and short fiction. How did you come about that imagery? What defines a poem for you? How do you go about writing a poem? Different poems travel different routes. Is faith something you turn to for insight into dealing with personal issues? Could you describe what the experience was like for you as an anthologist, having edited three remarkable anthologies?

What challenges did you face and how did you deal with them? Is there any story or issues worth sharing about the process of assembling the writers? And do you still maintain any publishing relationship with Ishmael Reed Publishing Company?

Biography Toyin Adewale-Gabriel is the author of Naked Testimonies, Die Aromaforscherin and Flackernde Kerzen.

As a young woman in Nigerian Literary Circles in the mid-nineties, l was struck by the absence of women voices, after the wave of Mabel Segun and Molara Ogundipe-Leslie whom we had studied in school. That inspired the Breaking the Silence project which l co-edited with Omowunmi Segun. I was able to get funding from the Heinrich Boll Foundation for publishing the book.