Perceptions

Dele Arogundade is an engineer, computer scientist, motivational speaker, an officer and a gentleman. He is an avid reader with an insatiable penchant for writing. A highly intuitive young man with an exceptional imaginative capability. He is a unique blend of creativity par excellence.
Dele is happily married with children.

Dele Arogundade is a poet whose poetry flows straight from the heart. They are anchored on very strong convictions and, taken as a whole; they paint a well realized picture of an officer and a gentleman in the service of his country.
The poems here run the gamut from the personal to the professional as we see in A-Y-O and Weep Not for Looking Good and Mobile House. But there is a blurring of boundaries because the poet has an uncanny facility for being a man and a soldier all at once.
In reading these deeply personal and reflective poems, one can easily trace the trajectory of the poets life; his family situation , his occupation, his travels, even his favourite sport.
The world has seen many soldiers turned writers but not many realize that Roald Dahl, the famous writer of childrens books was once a soldier. Well, we have another famous name in the making even though not many who read these poems would easily realize that Dele Arogundade is a soldier because even when he writes about war, it is in the language of peace and the everyday.
- Toni Kan
Award winning poet, essayist and short story writer