Nurtured to be tenacious and curious to learn during his bachelor's and master's program, Bukunmi Ogunsola trained as a linguist at the University of Ibadan developed interest in dyslexia, and further studied its prevalence in children, level of awareness, and knowledge within the school system in his home country, Nigeria. However, he also developed a passion for Language Documentation. The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) housed at the School of Oriental and African Languages (SOAS) paved the way for him to explore the vistas of language and cultural endangerment when he won the ELDP grant to document Len-Mambila. As a 2019 Fulbright, he taught Yorùbá language and culture at the University of Georgia (USA) and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Literacy and Language Education at the same university. Bukunmi’s ultimate goal is to explore literacy, its acquisition, intersections of linguistic repertoires within rural-urban language ecology, and literacy landscape in Africa.
