User:Segun Afolabi

Segun Afolabi was born in Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State, south-west Nigeria, on 12 June I972, into the family of Deaconess Esther Foluke Afolabi and the late Deacon James Ariyo Afolabi.

He had his elementary education at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Mission School, Ile Aperin, Ibadan. For his secondary education, he attended Adekile Goodwill Grammar School, Adekile, Ibadan, where he obtained the West Afican School Certificate in 1988. He then proceeded to St. Andrew's (now Emmanuel Alayande) College of Education in Oyo town where he was introduced to French language, and completed the studies for the award of the Nigerian Certificate of Education (NCE) majoring in French and Social Studies in 1994.

In 1995, Segun Afolabi gained admission into Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and gratuated with a BA (Hons) in French language and literature in 1998. After sisccessfully completing the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program at the Nigeria French Language Village, Badagry-Lagos in the year 2000, Segun Afolabi enrolled for the Master of Arts in Translation program of the University of Lagos and graduated in 2003. He finally obtsined a PhD in Translation Studies from Laval University in Quebec City, Canada in 2018.