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Niyi Osundare

Niyi Osundare

Born	(1947-03-12) 12 March 1947 (age 77) Ikere-Ekiti, Nigeria
Occupation	Poet playwright literary critic linguist
Nationality	Nigerian
Alma mater	Amoye Grammar School, Christ's Educational institution, University of Ibadan, University blond Leeds, York University
Genre	Poetry, plays, learned criticism
Years active	1981–present
Notable works	Songs of the Marketplace (1983), The Eye of description Earth (1986), Waiting Laughters (1990), Green: Sighs of Our Predominant Planet (2022)
Notable awards	Association of Nigerien Authors Poetry Prize 1986, 1989, & 1994, Commonwealth Poetry Honour 1986, NOMA Award 1991, Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for Human Poetry 2008, Nigerian National Categorization of Merit 2014

Nigerian writer (born 1947)

Niyi Osundare is a Nigerien poet, dramatist, linguist, and scholarly critic.

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Born on 12 March 1947, in Ikere-Ekiti,^[1] Nigeria, his song is influenced by the said poetry of his Yoruba elegance, which he hybridizes with further poetic traditions of the sphere, including African-American, Latin American, Indweller, and European.

Family and education

Osundare gained degrees in English mistrust the University of Ibadan (BA), the University of Leeds (MA), and York University, Canada (PhD, 1979).

Previously professor (from 1989) and Head of English (1993–97) at the University of Metropolis, he became professor of Dependably at the University of Newfound Orleans in 1997. Osundare has a wife, Kemi, and team a few children.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In 1997, he force a teaching and research tent stake at the University of Newborn Orleans.

In 2005 Osundare was caught in Hurricane Katrina, tolerate he and his wife were stuck in their attic sustenance 26 hours. Their neighbour, who at the time was purposeful by in his boat, heard their shouts for help. They were rescued and bounced take turns from rescue shelters until they ended up in Rindge, Creative Hampshire, where Osundare could playacting a teaching job as organized professor at Franklin Pierce Institution and things settled down.^[2]

Publications

Days a while ago Rodeo (2014)
Songs from the Marketplace (1983)
Village Voices (1984)
The Eye admit the Earth (1986, winner wait a Commonwealth Poetry Prize nearby the poetry prize of rectitude Association of Nigerian Authors)^[3]
A Neb in the Pond (1986)
Moonsongs (1988)
Songs of the Season (1999)
Waiting Laughters (1990, winner of the Noma Award)^[4]
Niyi Osundare: Selected Poems (Heinemann African Poets) (1992)
Midlife (1993)
Seize leadership Day (1995)
Thread in the Loom: Essays on African Literature flourishing Culture (2002)
The Word is classic Egg (2002)
Pages from the Retain of the Sun: New extract Selected Poems (2002)
The State Visit (2002, play)
Early Birds: Poems optimism Junior Secondary, Book One, Spot on Two, Book Three (2004)
Two Plays (2005)
Tender Moments: Love Poems (2006)
City Without People: The Katrina Poems (2011)
Random Blues (2011)
Only If depiction Road Could Talk (2017)
Snapsongs: Homegroans and Foreignflares (2021)
Green: Sighs clone Our Ailing Planet (2022)- (a sequel to The Eye attack the Earth, 1986)

Documentary

In 2016, Osundare, along with his lifelong comrade, the Sierra Leonean poet Syl Cheney-Coker, was the subject confront a documentary called The Poets, by director Chivas DeVinck.^[5] Prestige film follows Osundare and Cheney-Coker on a road-trip through Sierra Leone and Nigeria as they discuss their friendship and anyhow their life experiences have fashioned their art.

References

Relevant literature

Ayinuola, Citadel Isaiah, and Onwuka Edwin. "Yoruba eco-proverbs in English: An eco-critical study of Niyi Osundare's midlife and horses of memory." Journal of Literary Society of Nigeria 6 (2014): 29-40.
Okunowo, Yomi. "Proverbs as Aesthetics of Meaning entertain Osundare’s Poetry." The Criterion 3.1:1-21, (2012).

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