1. Favourite book ever: I’d have to say Mariama Ba’s epistolatory ‘So Long A Letter’. 2. Why?: The power of the book to transport me, at 14, into another country and another emotional context. I think it was the first book I ever read written by a woman and translated into English by another woman, that confronted me with real emotional complexity and conflict. It also made me more aware of life in Francophone Africa, the differences in idiom, for example, and tone. More than 30 years later, I’m still thinking … Continue reading My life in the bush of books – Tade Ipadeola, lawyer and award winning poet