[5][6] On November 7, 1997, while returning to Nigeria from a fellowship in Austria, Adesokan was arrested by security agents of the Sani Abacha administration and held incommunicado at one of the country's notorious detention centers, along with his friend and fellow writer, Ogaga Ifowodo.
[6] His first novel is titled Roots in the Sky[7] (2004), which won the Association of Nigerian Authors' Prize for Fiction in manuscript form back in 1996.
[11] Of his work, he says "My writing is an attempt to bear an honest witness to my time, to the experience I have as a human being, as a Nigerian, as an African.
There are other dimensions of experiences that are perennial, that aren't easy to grasp historically or as past events, and one tries to respond to these.
[13] Other works include Celebrating D. O. Fagunwa: Aspects of African and World Literary History,[14] co-edited with Adeleke Adeeko (Ibadan: Bookcraft, 2017, 314pp)[15] and Knocking Tommy's Hustle[16] (2010), a fictional piece.