He was a Fulbright scholar from 2009 through which he taught Yoruba at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville until 2010. His debut collection of poetry/travelogue "Edwardsville by Heart" covers this period.[7] In 2010, while still in the US, he worked as a volunteer adult literacy tutor, with resettled immigrants, at the International Institute of St. Louis, Missouri.[citation needed] In 2012, he completed a Masters in Linguistics/TESL and returned to Lagos, Nigeria to take up a job as a high school teacher of English language.[citation needed]