Tanure Ojaide (born 1948) is a Nigerian poet and academic.[1] As a writer, he is noted for his unique stylistic vision and for his intense criticism of imperialism, religion, and other issues. He is regarded as a socio-political and an ecocentric poet. He won the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa with his collection Songs of Myself: A Quartet (2017).[2]
TanureOjaide (born 1948) is a Nigerian poet and academic. As a writer, he is noted for his unique stylistic vision and for his intense criticism of imperialism...
industrialist Akpomudiago Odje, Senior Advocate and Officer of Nigeria TanureOjaide, poet and writer Blessing Okagbare, IAAC silver medalist and Olympic...
Ogwu, former Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations TanureOjaide, professor of English and renowned writer Mandy Ojugbana, musician Okocha...
dance. She has also been subject of a poem written by Nigerian writer TanureOjaide published in her collection "The Beauty I Have Seen: A Trilogy". She...
Lagos (play) 2018 (shared prize) Harriet Anena, A Nation in Labour TanureOjaide, Songs of Myself Grand Prix of Literary Associations Wole Soyinka Prize...
Literary Prize. Further Nigerian writers include: Daniel O. Fagunwa, TanureOjaide, Chris Abani, Ayobami Adebayo, Akwaeke Emezi, Nuzo Onoh, Yemisi Aribisala...
honorary fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), along with Prof. TanureOjaide and Olusegun Adeniyi. Onyemelukwe was born in Awka, Nigeria. She completed...
2023-01-24. Ojaruega, EE (2015-09-11). The place of Urhobo folklore in TanureOjaide's poetry. Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association. OCLC 923960138. "West...
study of TanureOjaide’s Fate of Vultures and other poems" in Okome, Onookome (ed). Writing the Homeland: The poetry and politics of TanureOjaide, Bayereuth:...
Ette Francis Idachaba Ladi Kwali Andrew Jonathan Nok Chukwuedu Nwokolo TanureOjaide Isidore Okpewho Niyi Osundare Lateef Akinola Salako Mabel Segun Wole...
collections by TanureOjaide and Servio Gbadamosi. On 9 December 2018, at an award ceremony held in Lagos, Nigeria, Anena and Ojaide were announced joint...
Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1995. 'An Agony... A Resurrection', in TanureOjaide and Tijan M. Sallah, eds., The New African Anthology, Lynne Reinner...
doi:10.4314/TVL.V52I2.11. Ojaide, Tanure (September 25, 2015). "Contemporary Africa and the Politics in Literature". In Ojaide, Tanure (ed.). Indigeneity, Globalization...
Historical Society, 2005. Ojaide. Tanure and Rose Aziza (eds.). The Urhobo Language Today. Lagos: Malthouse Press, 2007. Ojaide, Tanure and S. S. Ugheteni....
on the poet's language, humour, humanity, and political commitment. TanureOjaide, a Nigerian poet and scholar, reviewing the book in World Literature...
Adekoo Adeleke, Research in African Literatures 42 # 2 (2011): 102–104 TanureOjaide, World Literature Today 73.1 (1999): 199 "Oral Tradition and Modern...
Urhobo People and Ethnic Pluralism and Ethnicity in Nigeria. Professor TanureOjaide (Renowned Nigerian writer) Professor Peter Palmer Ekeh. Professor of...
experiences from the delta. Warri: Coewa Publishers, 1993. (ed. with TanureOjaide) The Urhobo language today. Lagos: Malthouse Press Limited, 2007. Sunny...
Peter, Anyidoho, Kofi (eds) 1989 The Fate of Vultures, contributions by TanureOjaide, Afam Akeh, Gichora Mwangi, Ama Asantewa Ababio, Alex Agyei-Agyiri,...
Authors ANA Poetry Prize. He has identified Birago Diop, Lenrie Peters, TanureOjaide and Kwesi Brew as the key influences on his poetry. In 1998, Zakama...
New Poets of West Africa, Malthouse Press, Nigeria, 1995 (ed.) with TanureOjaide, The New African Poetry: an anthology, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Colorado...
stories (1st ed.). New York: Amistad. ISBN 0061977047. OCLC 824701369. Ojaide, Tanure (1992). "Modern African Literature and Cultural Identity". African Studies...
Minority Discourses in African Literature, Routledge, 2020, edited by TanureOjaide and Joyce Ashuntantang, pp. 27-47. “Cultural heritage, artistic innovation...
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