Rolake Akinkugbe

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Banking
Occupation Analyst/Consultant
Location London, United Kingdom
Introduction Plan to live life with purpose and to the full.
Interests Music, Talk, Music, Talk, Africa, Talk, Music, Documentaries, Culture, Arts, Talk, African Theatre, Francophone literature and Art, some more music and some more Africa...
Favorite Movies The End of the Spear, Roots, The Usual Suspects, The Oath, Documentaries in general, RomComs in general :-)
Favorite Music Jazz, Latin and World Music - Asa, Mayra Andrade, Muntu Valdo, Esperanza Spalding, Lokua Kanza, Chucho Valdes, Richard Bona, Lionel Lueke, Youssou N'dour, Sibongile Khumalo, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Theolinus Monk, Cesaria Evora, Hugh Masekela, Herbie Hancock, Jamie Cullum, Fela Kuti, Michael Bublé, Frank Sinatra, Burt Bacharach, Muyiwa&Riversongz, Donnie McClurkin, Kirk Franklin, Oumou Sangare, Ali Fakra Touré, Roberto Fonseca, Orchestre Baobab, Carlou D, Roakia Traoré, Robert Glasper, Monty Alexander
Favorite Books The complete works of William Shakespeare, Si Longue Une Lettre, L'Enfant Noir, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Freedom, The Alchemist, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Time Traveller's Wife, Things Fall Apart, The Tipping Point, Purple Hibiscus, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Trouble with Nigeria, Aké, Disgrace, Travel Guides in general (even on countries I've never been to!!), The Kite Runner, Outliers: The Story of Success, Freedom, The Wretched of the Earth, Americanah, Ghana Must Go, No Longer At Ease, Arrow of God, and above all, my bible!!

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