As a cultural archivist, Túbọ̀sún focuses on preserving African intellectual history through film, translation, and publishing. In 2018, Túbọ̀sún was awarded the
Miles Morland Writing Scholarship to write a biography of Nobel Laureate
Wole Soyinka. This research part-influenced in his debut feature documentary,
Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory (2024). The film chronicles Soyinka’s life in the
University of Ibadan bungalow where the writer was arrested in 1967. The documentary has been acquired for the African Studies collections of major institutions, including
Harvard University,
Yale University,
Columbia University,
University of Pennsylvania, and
University of Chicago. Túbọ̀sún is the publisher and editor-in-chief of
OlongoAfrica, a platform for creative writing and journalism. In 2023, Tubosun led the 'Black Orpheus Revisited' project, a digital archival initiative funded by the
Open Society Foundations to digitize and preserve the complete run of the influential literary journal
Black Orpheus journal (1957–1975). The project, which draws from his personal collection of the magazines, was featured in
The World of Interiors in September 2025. He previously edited
Aké Review and served as the Africa Editor for the inaugural
Best Literary Translations anthology (Deep Vellum, 2024). He is a prolific translator, having translated works by
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o,
Haruki Murakami,
Chimamanda Adichie,
Wole Soyinka,
James Baldwin, and others into
Yoruba. His second poetry collection,
Ìgbà Èwe (2021), features original Yoruba translations of poetry by American philosopher
Emily Grosholz. In September 2019, Tubosun co-founded
The Brick House Cooperative, with eight other publications with the aim of presenting independent viewpoints from all around the world. He became the founding editor-in-chief and publisher of
OlongoAfrica, a literary-journalistic platform for new creative writing from Africa. He's also a travel writer. == Selected works ==