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Author & Editor

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. In 2016 Ojaide was awarded the the prestigious Fonlon-Nichols Award at the 42nd annual African Literature Association (ALA) conference in Atlanta.

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/

  • At Home, Away from Home
    At Home, Away from Home
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Cissus World Press, USA
  • The Beauty I Have Seen
    The Beauty I Have Seen
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Malthouse Press, Nigeria
  • A Creative Writing Handbook for African Writers and Students
    A Creative Writing Handbook for African Writers and Students
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Malthouse Press, Nigeria
  • Delta Blues and Other Home Songs
    Delta Blues and Other Home Songs
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Kraft Books, Nigeria
  • Drawing the Map of Heaven
    Drawing the Map of Heaven
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Malthouse Press, Nigeria
  • God's Medicine Men & Other Stories
    God's Medicine Men & Other Stories
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Malthouse Press, Nigeria
  • God's Naked Children
    God's Naked Children
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Malthouse Press, Nigeria
  • I Want to Dance and Other Poems
    I Want to Dance and Other Poems
    by Tanure Ojaide
    African Heritage Press, Nigeria
  • In the House of Words
    In the House of Words
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Malthouse Press, Nigeria
  • Love Gifts
    Love Gifts
    by Tanure Ojaide
    African Heritage Press, Nigeria
  • The Markas
    The Markas
    edited by Tanure Ojaide, Razinat T. Mohammed, Abubakar Othman
    Malthouse Press, Nigeria
  • Matters of the Moment
    Matters of the Moment
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Malthouse Press, Nigeria
  • Narrow Escapes
    Narrow Escapes
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Spears Media Press, Cameroon
  • The Old Man in a State House and Other Stories
    Sale
    The Old Man in a State House and Other Stories
    by Tanure Ojaide
    African Heritage Press, Nigeria
  • Ordering the African imagination
    Sale
    Ordering the African imagination
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Malthouse Press, Nigeria
  • The Poetry of Wole Soyinka
    The Poetry of Wole Soyinka
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Malthouse Press, Nigeria
  • Songs of Myself: Quartet
    Songs of Myself: Quartet
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Kraft Books, Nigeria
  • Sovereign Body
    Sovereign Body
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Cissus World Press, USA
  • Stars of the Long Night
    Stars of the Long Night
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Malthouse Press, Nigeria
  • The Tale of the Harmattan
    The Tale of the Harmattan
    by Tanure Ojaide
    Kraft Books, Nigeria
  • Urhobo Language Today
    Urhobo Language Today
    edited by Tanure Ojaide, Rose Aziza
    Malthouse Press, Nigeria
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