Funke Osae-Brown
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Journalism |
| Location | Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | I'm a journalist with BusinessDay Newspaper, Lagos Nigeria. I write a column on Fridays called Starters. As the editor of the Businesslife Magazine, a weekend pullout in BusinessDay, I do alot of writing that covers different areas of human interest most of which I paste on this blog. I won the Future Awards Journalist of the Year, 2009. I also edit the youth magazine, Naijatimes, published by Naijasounds. You can read more about me by following this link: http://www.iwmf.org/article.aspx?id=945&c=voices |
| Interests | Reading, travelling, meeting positive and dynamic people, listening to country music |
| Favorite movies | I, Robot; Gone Baby Gone,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| Favorite music | Shania Twain's Forever and Always, Elton John's Sacrifice, Infinity's Aye O le, Donnie McCulkin's Days of Elijah, all of Don Williams' albums |
| Favorite books | All the novels of Ngugi Wa Thiongo especially Devil on the Cross and A Grain of Wheat; Alex La Guma's A Walk in the Night; Meja Mwangi's Kill Me Quick; Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker; The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; A Question of Power by Bessie Head; Dragon Can't Dance; Black Boy; Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi; Joyce Carol Oates' Solstices; Isabel Allende's Paula; |

