Rotimi Babatunde was born in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, where he attended St. Joseph's Nursery and Primary School before going on to secondary education at the Federal Government College, Odogbolu, and subsequently to Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

[2][3] Babatunde's plays have been presented at institutions such as London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Swedish National Touring Theatre and the Halcyon Theatre, Chicago,[4] as well as being broadcast on the BBC World Service.

His other works includes: Babatunde won the Meridian Tragic Love Story Competition (hosted and organized by the BBC World Service).

Chosen from five shortlisted options, the story was described by chair judge Bernardine Evaristo as ...ambitious, darkly humorous and in soaring, scorching prose exposes the exploitative nature of the colonial project and the psychology of independence.

[11]In April 2014 Babatunde was named in the Hay Festival's Africa39 project as one of the 39 Sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40 with the potential and the talent to define the trends of the region.