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Charles Cantalupo

Charles Cantalupo is professor of English, comparative literature and African studies at Penn State University in the US. He is the co-editor of Who Needs a Story? Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic (Hdri Publishers, 2006).

Click here to read an account of Charles' experience in co-editing Who Needs a Story? and the means of cultural production which led to it being published.

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Chenjerai Hove and Binyavanga Wainaina, will be appearing at the PEN World Voices Festival in NYC April 28 - May 4, 2008.

African Books Collective will be attending the African Literature Association meeting in Illinois during April 2008.

Tanure Ojaide

Tanure Ojaide

A renowned poet, Tanure Ojaide 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), twice the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988 and 1997), and thrice the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize (1988, 1994 and 2004.

For Tanure Ojaide, "the creative writer is never an airplant, but someone who is grounded in some specific place. It is difficult to talk of many writers without their identification with place. Every writer's roots are very important in understanding his or her work." He has read from his poetry in different fora in Africa, Britain, Canada, Israel, Mexico, The Netherlands, and the United States. Some of his poems have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Spanish and French. He is currently the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Visit Tanure Ojaide's website here: http://www.tanureojaide.com/

Books authored by Tanure Ojaide

A Creative Writing Handbook for African Writers and Students

ISBN 9789780231828 | 100 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2005 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Paperback

Delta Blues and Other Home Songs

ISBN 9789782081773 | 96 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2002 | Kraft Books, Nigeria | Paperback

God's Medicine Men & Other Stories

ISBN 9789780231378 | 168 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2004 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Paperback

I Want to Dance and Other Poems

ISBN 9780962886454 | 92 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2003 | African Heritage Press, Nigeria | Paperback

In the House of Words

ISBN 9789780231989 | 144 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2006 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Paperback

Ordering the African imagination

Essays on Culture and Literature

ISBN 9789780232047 | 184 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2007 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Paperback

The Poetry of Wole Soyinka

ISBN 9789780230067 | 152 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 1994 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Paperback

Books edited by Tanure Ojaide

Urhobo Language Today

Edited by Tanure Ojaide, Rose Aziza

ISBN 9789780232290 | 172 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2007 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Paperback

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