Ojaide, Tanure, 1948-

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Name (Latin)
Ojaide, Tanure, 1948-
Other forms of name
Ojaide, Moses Tanure, 1948-
Date of birth
1948-04-24
Associated country
Nigeria
Field of activity
College teaching
Poetry
Occupation
Authors, Black
College teachers
Poets
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 2523727
Wikidata: Q7683918
Library of congress: n 80105889
BGU10: 000084933
Wikipedia description:

Tanure Ojaide (born 1948) is a Nigerian poet and academic. 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).

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