Tade Ipadeola is a Nigerian poet, essayist, translator and lawyer. He writes in both Yoruba and English. He has published three volumes of poetry – A Time of Signs (2000), The Rain Fardel (2005) and The Sahara Testaments (2013).
He has also published many short stories and book reviews. In 2009, his poem Odídẹrẹ́ (‘Songbird’ in English) won the Delphic Laurel in poetry at the Delphic Games held in Jeju, South Korea. Tade Ipadeola has translated an important Yoruba novelist, Daniel Fagunwa, from his native Yoruba into English. He has also translated poems by W.H Auden, Tomas Transtromer and Lu Xun into Yoruba.
In 2013, his book of poetry, The Sahara Testaments won the Nigeria Prize for Literature.
He lives in Ibadan where he curate the Kofi Awoonor Memorial Library while also practising Law.
Tade has read his works around Africa, Asia, Europe and America. He has been translated into many languages around the world. He lives in Ibadan, Nigeria where he works as a lawyer and founding librarian at the Kofi Awoonor Memorial Library.