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          10 Tanure Ojaide and Akin Ogundiran: Knowledge Circulation and the Diasporic Interface was published in The African Diaspora on page...

          Tanure Ojaide

          Nigerian poet and academic (born 1948)

          Tanure Ojaide (born 1948) is a Nigerian poet and academic.[1] As a writer, he is noted for his unique stylistic vision and for his intense criticism of imperialism, religion, and other issues.

          He is regarded as a socio-political and an ecocentric poet. He won the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa with his collection Songs of Myself: A Quartet (2017).[2]

          Biography

          Tanure Ojaide was born to Urhobo parents from Okpara Inland in Agbon Kingdom of Delta State.

          In The Activist, Ojaide presents a nameless protagonist, the Activist, who is optimistic that something must be done to change the conditions of his people.

        1. A Comparative Study of Environmental Struggles in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide and Marilyn Dumont of First Nations (Canada).
        2. 10 Tanure Ojaide and Akin Ogundiran: Knowledge Circulation and the Diasporic Interface was published in The African Diaspora on page
        3. This article examines Milton's poetic visions, and the institutions and actions that characterized his political life in the English Revolution, and their.
        4. A study of the origins and development of world civilizations.

          5. He credits his grandmother with having inspired his writing.[3] He attended secondary school at Obinomba and Federal Government College, Warri, before proceeding to the University of Ibadan for his degree program in English.

          He attended Syracuse University, where he earned an M.A. in Creative Writing and a PhD in English. He later taught at the University of Maiduguri, before being appointed as Professor at the University of