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Linus Asong

Linus Asong was born in the South West Region of Cameroon in 1947. With a combined B.A honours in Education, in 1980 he entered the University of Windsor in Canada whence he graduated with a terminal degree in Creative Writing. He holds an M.A and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton Canada, and is presently Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Ecole Normale Superieure Bambili (University of Yaounde 1). Asong is a stand-up humorist, a consummate portrait painter, an accomplished literary scholar, and a celebrated prolific writer with over a dozen novels to his credit.

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Niyi Osundare

Niyi Osundare

Poet, dramatist, critic, essayist, and media columnist, Niyi Osundare has authored over ten volumes of poetry, two books of selected poems, four plays, a book of essays, and numerous articles on literature, language, culture, and society. He regards his calling as a writer and his profession as a teacher as essentially complementary.

He was educated on three continents: B.A. (Honours) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, M.A. from the University of Leeds in England, and Ph.D. from York University, Toronto, Canada. The wide and varied exposure accruing from this has proved very useful for his writing and teaching careers. Born in Nigeria, one of the most linguistically and culturally heterogeneous countries in the world, he learnt early in life the complexities and challenges of diversity.

He began his teaching career at the University of Ibadan in 1974 and rose to the position of full professor there in 1989. From 1993 to 1997, he was the chair of its Department of English. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990 to 1991, and in 1991/92, an associate professor of English at the University of New Orleans, where he returned as full professor in 1997, and was selected university research professor in 2001. His areas of specialization are African literature, literature of the African diaspora, literary stylistics, sociolinguistics, and creative writing

Books authored by Niyi Osundare

ISBN 9789780810672 | 128 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2008 | HEBN Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

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The Eye of the Earth

ISBN 9789781291395 | 68 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1986 | Heinemann Educational Books, Nigeria | Paperback

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ISBN 9789781291982 | 124 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1993 | Heinemann Educational Books, Nigeria | Paperback

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ISBN 9789782460172 | 84 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1988 | Spectrum Books, Nigeria | Paperback

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Songs of the Marketplace

ISBN 9789782266101 | 108 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1983 | Niyi Osundare, Nigeria | Paperback

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Songs of the Season

ISBN 9789781291760 | 164 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1990 | Heinemann Educational Books, Nigeria | Paperback

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The State Visit

ISBN 9789780390587 | 68 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2002 | Kraft Books, Nigeria | Paperback

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Tender Moments. Love Poems

ISBN 9789780690274 | 112 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2006 | University Press, Nigeria, Nigeria | Paperback

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ISBN 9789780305680 | 84 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2005 | University Press, Nigeria, Nigeria | Paperback

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Waiting Laughters

ISBN 9789782601407 | 104 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1990 | Niyi Osundare, Nigeria | Paperback

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The Word is an Egg

ISBN 9789780390198 | 96 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2002 | Kraft Books, Nigeria | Paperback

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