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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

The Beauty I Have Seen The Beauty I Have Seen

A Trilogy

Tanure Ojaide

ISBN 9789788422297 | 154 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2010 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Paperback

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A Creative Writing Handbook for African Writers and Students A Creative Writing Handbook for African Writers and Students

Tanure Ojaide

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

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Delta Blues and Other Home Songs Delta Blues and Other Home Songs

Tanure Ojaide

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

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Drawing the Map of Heaven Drawing the Map of Heaven

An African Writer in America

Tanure Ojaide

ISBN 9789788422525 | 228 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2012 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Paperback

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God's Medicine Men & Other Stories God's Medicine Men & Other Stories

Tanure Ojaide

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

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I Want to Dance and Other Poems I Want to Dance and Other Poems

Tanure Ojaide

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

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In the House of Words In the House of Words

Tanure Ojaide

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

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Love Gifts Love Gifts

Tanure Ojaide

ISBN 9780979085895 | 110 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2013 | African Heritage Press, Nigeria | Paperback

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Matters of the Moment Matters of the Moment

Tanure Ojaide

ISBN 9789788422013 | 180 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2009 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Paperback

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The Old Man in a State House and Other Stories The Old Man in a State House and Other Stories

Tanure Ojaide

ISBN 9780979085871 | 166 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2012 | African Heritage Press, Nigeria | Paperback

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Ordering the African imagination Ordering the African imagination

Essays on Culture and Literature

Tanure Ojaide

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

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The Poetry of Wole Soyinka The Poetry of Wole Soyinka

Tanure Ojaide

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

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Stars of the Long Night Stars of the Long Night

Tanure Ojaide

ISBN 9789788422495 | 278 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2012 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Paperback

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Books edited by Tanure Ojaide

Urhobo Language Today 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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