Interviews, talks,
& press

Radio & Broadcast

• Translating and Publishing World Literature: Editors RoundtableWorld Literature Today · 2025
• On Nigeria's New Mother Tongue Language Policy in EducationBBC World Service · Dec 2022
• 29 Nigerian English Words Added to the Oxford English DictionaryBBC World Service · 2020
• On Google's New Nigerian AccentThe World / PRI · 2019
• Nigeria's Indefinite Twitter Ban Sounds the Alarm on Free SpeechThe World / NPR · 2021

Print & Online

• Of Language Work and Interventions — also in FrenchAfrican Studies Library · 2026
• Translating and Publishing World Literature: Editors Roundtable — also on YouTubeWorld Literature Today · 2025
• The Battleground for Language SurvivalAsymptote Journal · 2026
• On Best Literary Translations 2025 — InterviewBomb Magazine · 2025
• Setting Forth from Ebrohimie RoadThe Republic · 2025
• How Kola Tubosun and His Team Gave Google a Nigerian AccentTechPoint Africa · 2019
• How Google's Nigerian Voice Accent Was CreatedQuartz Africa · 2019
• "An e-Book is a Book" — Nigerian Poet and LinguistGlobal Voices · 2013
• Nigeria's New ChapterForeign Policy · 2023
• Nigeria's Twitter Ban Continues to Silence CitizensForeign Policy · 2021
• Nigeria's Twitter Ban Is Another Sign Dictatorship Is BackForeign Policy · 2021
• In Africa, Rescuing the Languages That Western Tech IgnoresVOA News · 2022
• A Renaissance Is Badly Needed in African Language LiteratureAfrican Writer · 2018
• On YorubaName.com, Language, and Digital HumanitiesBrittle Paper · 2016
• On Google, Translations, and African LiteratureIsele Magazine · 2020

Aké Arts & Book Festival — Selected Sessions

• Yorùbá: Linguistic Vehicle or Value System — Panel with Femi Taiwo, Arinpe Adejumo & Feyikemi Niyi-OlayinkaAké Festival · 2019
• Book Chat — with Olumide Popoola and Mohale MashigoAké Festival · 2017
• Book Chat — with Alain Mabanckou and Okey NdibeAké Festival · 2016
• Exhuming the Author: How the Media Approaches New Writing — PanelAké Festival · 2016
• Modern Africa Poetry — Panel with Damilola Ajayi, Kei Miller, Bassey Ikpi & Jumoke VerissimoAké Festival · 2014
• Guest InterviewAké Festival · 2015
• Full archive — 217 photos and videosGoogle Arts & Culture

• Translation Conversations — with Ibrahim Fawzy · BostonVimeo · April 2025
• African Literature in Translation After Ngugi — Roundtable · NY Black and African Literature Festival 2025NYBALF · 2025
• Conversation with Howard French — The Second Emancipation · NY Black and African Literature Festival 2025NYBALF · 2025

• Conversazione con Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún — Premio Ostana · Interview by Valentina MusmeciPremio Ostana · 2020
• For Whom the Language Bells Toll: African Languages & Technology — Barnard College, New YorkMarch 2025
• Best Literary Translations 2024 PanelThird Place Books · 2024
• Translating and Publishing World Literature: Editors RoundtableWorld Literature Today · 2025
• Translation Panel — Lagos Book FestivalNovember 2020
• Book Chat — with Abi Daré — Aké Arts & Book FestivalAké Festival · 2019
• AI Saturdays Lagos — Language Interview2019
• Book Chat — with Bernardine Evaristo & Nicole Dennis-Benn — Aké Arts & Book FestivalAké Festival · Nov 2019
• Towards Religious Freedom in Northern Nigeria — Kabafest Panel — moderator · with Mubarak Bala, Freedom Onuoha & Abubakar OthmanKabafest · 2018
• From Joyce to Ṣóyínká — Bloomsday Panel — with Dr. Adrian Paterson, moderated by Àdùkẹ́ Gomez · Embassy of Ireland, NigeriaJune 2020
• On Nigeria's New Mother Tongue Language Policy in EducationBBC World Service · Dec 2022
• Digital Indaba — Black Orpheus Digitally RevisitedYouTube · 2025
• Dark Matters: Bias in Speech AIPioneer Works · 2021
• How Should We Write Yorùbá?British Library Webinar · 2020
• Yorùbá: Linguistic Vehicle or Value SystemAké Festival · 2019

Interviews Conducted

• My Life in Translation — Chloé MartinezBest Literary Translations · 2026
• Conversations on Language — a series of six interviews conducted on Medium:Medium
• Conversation with a Grammarian — Prof. Ayọ̀ Bánj ̣ọMedium
• Conversation with a LecturerMedium
• Conversation with a Language EngineerMedium
• Conversation with a ConlangerMedium
• Conversation with a PhilologistMedium
• Conversation with a PolyglotMedium
• Translation Conversations — Ibrahim Fawzy — on writing, translating, African literature, and writing in hard times · BostonVimeo · April 2025
• My Life in Translation — Ibrahim FawzyBest Literary Translations · 2025
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on What It Means to Be KenyanGoogle Arts & Culture · 2019
• "A Place is Illuminated in and by Absence" — Emmanuel IdumaBrittle Paper · 2019
• "Home is Always a Slippery Word" — Namwali SerpellAké Review · 2015
• "I Just Have Stories to Tell" — Nnedi OkoraforAfricanWriter · 2016