Tanure Ojaide
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Dr. Tanure Ojaide (born 1948) is a prolific Nigerian poet and writer. He is noted for his unique stylistic vision and for his intense criticism of imperialism, religion, and other issues.
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), the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988 and 1997), and also the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize (1988 and 1994).
[edit] Selected works
- Children of the Iroko, 1973
- Labyrinths of the Delta, 1986
- Great Boys: An African Childhood
[edit] References
- Tanure Ojaide - Poetry Africa 2005 at University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Simon Gikandi, Encyclopedia of African Literature, Routledge, 2002
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