Pelu Awofeso is a Nigerian journalist, travel and culture writer, based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Awofeso claims to have become interested in travelling after a first encounter with the city of Jos in Plateau State of Nigeria in 1998.
Those encounters seeded me to want to follow in their footsteps, to travel extensively in Nigeria and document what I’ve seen.
It made me develop more interest in Jos and also in travelling, to also write about this beautiful place people have written about 50 years ago.
"[10] In 2010, he published Tour of Duty, a book "which documents ten months travelling the width and breadth of Nigeria, and tells the stories of people and places he encounters on the way, from the sand sellers of Yenagoa to hunters in Osogbo.