African model biography format

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Personal Biography

Omololá Ijeoma Ògúnyemí is a medical informatics researcher based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Growing up in Nigeria, she was captivated by the works of Nwapa, Emecheta, Ba, Ekwensi, Austen, Ulasi, El Sadaawi, Thorpe and other authors of the then ubiquitous Pacesetters series targetted at young Nigerians. She draws her inspiration from the experiences of Nigerians and other Africans in the diaspora, and has run a mailing list for Nigerian and African women's issues since Her work has appeared in Odidere Orunmila Gazette and the South Boston Literary Gazette.

Traditional Biography

Kwame Senu Neville Dawes was born in Ghana in but grew up in Jamaica where he attended Jamaica College an