Tayo Olafioye
Tayo Olafioye is a poet, novelist and scholar, active in Nigeria and the united States. He has won prizes for his volumes of poetry, which include Sorrows of a Town Crier (1988) and Bush Girl Comes to Town (1988). His other publications include The Excellence of Silence, The Saga of Sego (1982) and two works of literary criticism: Responses to Creativity (1988) and critic as Terrorist: Views on New African Writings (1989).
His most recent collections are entitled A Carnival of Looters (2000) and The Parliament of Idiots (2002), both published by Kraft Books, Nigeria. This is the author's semi-fictional autobiography, written in the third person, following in the tradition of Camara Laye's African Child, Wole Soyinka's trilogy (Ake, Isara, Ibadan) and Tanure Ojaide's Great Boys: An African Childhood.
Books authored by Tayo Olafioye
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Grandma's Sun
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A Childhood Memoir from Africa
ISBN 9789780391027 | 208 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2000 | Kraft Books, Nigeria | Paperback
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It Would Take Time
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Conversations with Living Ancestors
ISBN 9789780390600 | 92 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2002 | Kraft Books, Nigeria | Paperback
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The Parliament of Idiots
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Tryst of the Sinators
ISBN 9789780390594 | 96 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2002 | Kraft Books, Nigeria | Paperback
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The Poetry of Tanure Ojaide
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ISBN 9789780231255 | 175 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2000 | Malthouse Press, Nigeria | Paperback
