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Tanure Ojaide, Ph.D. Dr. Ojaide is a leading poet, and he has also written critical essays and novels. He has won major national and international poetry awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region (1987), the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award (1988), the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988 and 1997), and also the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Poetry Prize (1988 and 1994). Education: • Ph.D., Syracuse University Areas of Interest:
• African/Pan-African/Black Literatures
• Non-Western, World & Postcolonial Literatures and Creative Writing (Poetry) • Oral Poetic Performance of Africa and the African Diaspora Recent Books and Essays: In the House of Words (Lagos: Malthouse Press Ltd., 2006) The Activist (Lagos: Farafina, 2006) (Re)Ordering the African Imagination: Literary Essays (Lagos: Malthouse, 2007) The Tale of the Harmattan (Cape Town, SA: Kwela Books, 2007) Dictionary of Literary Biography: Contemporary African Writers. Volume Editor (for Bruccoli Clark/Gale Research, 2008).
Waiting for the Hatching of a Cockerel: A Neo-Epic Song (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2008). The Debt-Collector and Other Stories (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2009).
Theorizing African Oral Poetic Performance and Aesthetics (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2009). Current Projects: The Urhobo Language Today (editor). ). Matters of the Moment (a novel). Drawing the Map of Heaven: An African Writer‘s Experience of America. Courses Taught: • AFRS 1100 - Introduction to Africana Studies • AFRS 2206 - African Literature, Music, & Art (Fall 2009 Syllabus) • AFRS 3290 - Research Methods • AFRS 3601 - Senior Seminar • AFRS 3692 – Colloquium • AFRS 4101 - African Literature in English (Fall 2009 Syllabus) • AFRS 4102 - Caribbean Literature in English • AFRS 4155/5155 - Pan-African Literature |
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