Lagos born. Descendant of kin from the West Indies, Sierra Leone andthe Republic of Benin.
Ayodele Morocco-Clarke is a writer of mixed heritage and an award winning Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria(blushes). She taught Environmental Law as a Senior Lecturer at the Lagos State University and is an Oil & Gas, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy and Environmental Law Consultant, whilst also being the Managing Partner of Munroe & Stine, a law firm with its head office in Lagos.
Describing herself as stubbornly unconventional, Ayodele is the Editor-in-Chief of ‘Critical Literature Review’ and her written works have appeared in:
- ‘To See the Mountain’ (the 2011 Caine Prize anthology)
- ‘Crossing the Lines’ (a 2011 anthology edited by Jackie Kay and Kachi A. Ozumba)
- ‘African Roar 2010 and 2011’
- ‘Author Africa 2009’
- African Writing
- the New Black Magazine
- Saraba Magazine
- Sphere Literary Magazine, amongst others.
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