How to cure a child with books | Temiloluwa Adeshina

This is an inspiring story of how Temi Adeshina began her journey as a children’s book author. She expresses her passion in this talk on how the power of books in the lives of children will nurture them to become better adults and build a better future. Temiloluwa Adeshina is a radio presenter, author, serial social entrepreneur and a seasoned British Curriculum Teacher and consultant with more than a decade old experience. She cut her tooth as a teacher while working with other curriculums within the Nigerian system of education. The behavioural patterns of children she understudied over the years laced with her depth of African culture inspire her works of fun, humour and drama. She loves children and believes every child is a star waiting for a moment of history. She believes every child must be a reader. She is the winner of Guarantee Trust Bank’s Simple Change Big Impact Challenge.

She reviews educational textbooks and re-writes them for leading publishing firms in Africa like Learn Africa (formerly called Longman). All of these books have been approved and adopted into the Lagos State Curriculum. She lives in a fairy world where stories are written endlessly from diverse diaries of dreams and pages of excitement.

She is a prolific writer and author. This is what she is committed to. Her published solution-based books include Lagos State Approved Bantu the Big Fat Bully, an Anti-Bullying Book Series, arguably the first Anti-Bullying Book Series in Africa. Her books strategically revolve around moral activities and community change projects that seek to fix cultural and moral challenges in children. Such activity includes the Award-Winning, Lagos State Approved Anti-Bullying Programs mandated for all schools in the State. Hence the adoption of the book Bantu as the resource material. Her books are strategic operational manual for community change. Other published books include Risi Recycle Series, Happy Jappy Series, Mini Mani Mo, Dark Arises and more. She churns out book day in day out. This is her lifelong passion.

Temiloluwa’s style of writing is a creative blend of DavidWalliam’s and Francesca Simons’ humour and wit laced with Enid Blyton’s mild, fairylike enchanting world yet heavily and deeply rooted in her strong African heritage and culture.

She is the Chief Reading Coach and co-founder of Readland Leadership Center for Children powered by Vast Vision Global. She also doubles as the head of Purposeful Educational Networks (PENS), a subunit of Vast Vision Global, a helping welcome organization mandated to revive Africa. This group has placed 160 fewer privilege children on scholarship. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://bit.ly/3esP7kp