Niyi Osundare
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Niyi Osundare's Degrees
- Bachelors English University of Ibadan
- Masters English University of Ibadan
- PhD English University of Ibadan
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Niyi Osundare is a leading African poet, dramatist, linguist, and literary critic. Born on March 12, 1947, in Ikere-Ekiti, Nigeria, his poetry is influenced by the oral poetry of his Yoruba culture, which he capaciously hybridizes with other poetic traditions of the world, including African-American, Latin American, Asian, and European.
Niyi Osundare's Published Works
Published Works
- Songs of the marketplace (1983) (20)
- The Eye of Earth (2021) (14)
- All Are Involved: The Art of Martin Carter (2000) (8)
- Phases in Nigerian Poetry in English (2006) (7)
- Half a Century Later (2006) (6)
- An Interview with Niyi Osundare (2000) (5)
- From the Closet to the Marketplace: Popular Poetry and the Democratic Space in Nigeria (2001) (4)
- Obama (2008) (4)
- Caliban's Curse: The English Language and Nigeria's Underdevelopment (1982) (3)
- How Post-Colonial is African Literature? (1994) (3)
- Waiting laughters (a long song in many voices) (1990) (2)
- The word is an egg : poems (2000) (2)
- Select Works by Niyi Osundare (2019) (1)
- Remembering Eldred Durosimi Jones (2021) (0)
- Poems for sale: stylistic features of Yorùbá ìpolówó poetry (1991) (0)
- Poems (2019) (0)
- In the Pockets of My Memory (2001) (0)
- The Ultimate Romantic (2009) (0)
- A Most Enduring Legacy (1999) (0)
- The eye of the earth (poems) (1986) (0)
- Season of Oppression (1982) (0)
- Mountains of the Mind (2008) (0)
- The Plough and the Pen. Of the Scribbling Hoe and Library of Yams1 (2019) (0)
- Two Poems (2022) (0)
- Dialogue between Africa and Europe: impediments and possibilities (2003) (0)
- If Alioune Diop were alive today: Contemporary black discourse and the 1956 Congress (2007) (0)
- Tresholds and millennial Crossings (2000) (0)
- Seize the day, and other poems for the junior (1995) (0)
- The real meaning of Adunni Olorisa (1915-2009). Celebrating the late Susanne Wenger and her fellow catalysts (2008) (0)
- "Thresholds" (poem) / "Seuils" (poème) (2000) (0)
- Poetry (2006) (0)
- Poems from Waiting Laughters (2001) (0)
- The Desert Cometh (2008) (0)
- Songs of the season (poems) (1990) (0)
- Cleft (2020) (0)
- Text Worship: (or the deconstruction passport of Travelling Theory) (2002) (0)
- I Am One of Africa’s Accidents (2001) (0)
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