This is the home page of 'Ponmile Oloyede. I was born in the 70's to Nigerian parents in Lagos, Nigeria. I started grade school rather early,at four, due to a fortunate twist of event that prevented me from starting off in a kindergaten class. I enjoyed school even when I was by far the youngest dude in class and savoured the confidence that came from the knowledge that my teacher was a family friend. A year later at barely age five, I was sent off to my hometown in Abeokuta, Nigeria,about 100 miles away from home to continue schooling in a boarding home. And ever since, my entire educational career has been marked with never-ending periods of distant relationship with my immediate family, a situation which has made me learn to be independent- not exactly by choice.

I later attended the Abeokuta Grammar School where I had a tremendously exciting six-year span of my life. Innocent childhood pranks,courting troubles from bigger contemproraries by washing my running mouth off them, picking up swollen lips and finding a good lie to hide it away, poaching school shirts only to furtively return it after the owner had given it up for lost. Everyday brought with it its entirely different experience and lessons. I graduated out of this forge, a bubbling young man with the conviction that our trajectory in life mattered less on looks or riches and that if all men were constrained to live under conditions that are uninfluencable, one human is not so much better than another to make their cohabitation impossible.