Tosin Adesokan
Writer/ Artist / Poet/ Linguist / Critic
English · Arts and Sciences · American University of Beirut
Tosin Adesokan is a writer and researcher interested in language, literature, education and culture. His work explores how language shapes meaning, identity and society, with a particular interest in corpus linguistics and literary studies.
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Nollywood and the Stories of Money Ritual
When did the idea that human sacrifice could produce money become part of our cultural imagination? Before Nollywood, before modern cinema, and even before the widespread circulation of money, did anything resembling “money ritual” exist?
The Return to Philology
I know you know phonology. You also know philosophy. You are familiar with phonetics. But why have we forgotten their mother, philology? The word "philology" comes from the…