Gbenga Olu Komolafe is a Nigerian writer whose public service career in Nigeria spanned decades. He is a fellow of Nigeria Society of Engineers and a member of the Nigeria Bar Association. He spent many years in his country’s oil and gas sector traversing price regulatory and equalisation management agencies, petroleum products supply and distribution, and managing crude oil marketing responsibilities. He served in the positions of general manager of operations in the petroleum products pricing regulatory agency and petroleum equalization fund respectively, and as group general manager and managing director in the Nigerian National Oil Corporation. Failure of Light is his first novel.