Oluwabusayo Temitope Folarin is an author. He is also Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank based in Washington DC.In 2013 Folarin became the first writer based outside Africa to win the Caine Prize, which he won for his short story "Miracle." The story is set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian church.[9] The award of the prize — which is open to anyone who was born in Africa, is an African national, or whose parents are African — generated some discussion about whether the author's connection to Africa was strong enough.[10][11][12]Folarin’s short story “Miracle” won the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing. His first novel, “A Particular Kind of Black Man,” was published in August 2019, and won the Whiting Award for Fiction.Folarin received his B.A. from Morehouse and his M.Sc. in African Studies and his M.Sc. in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford.