Tanure Ojaide

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, a Ph.D., 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).

Poems

• Waiting for the Hatching of a Cockerel (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2008)
• The Tale of the Harmattan (Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2007)
• In the House of Words (Lagos: Malthouse Press Ltd., 2005)
• I Want to Dance and Other Poems (San Francisco: African Heritage Press, 2003)
• In the Kingdom of Songs (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002).
• Invoking the Warrior Spirit: New and Selected Poems (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000).
• When It No Longer Matters Where You Live (Calabar, Nig.: U of Calabar Press, 1999).
• Invoking the Warrior Spirit (Ibadan: Heinemann, 1999).
• Delta Blues and Home Songs (Ibadan: Kraft Books, 1998).
• Daydream of Ants (Lagos: Malthouse Press Ltd., 1997).
• The Blood of Peace (Oxford, UK: Heinemann, 1991).
• The Fate of Vultures (Lagos: Malthouse Press Ltd., 1990).
• Poems (Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Poetry International, 1988).
• The Endless Song (Lagos: Malthouse Press Ltd., 1988).
• The Eagle's Vision (Detroit: Lotus, 1987).
• Labyrinths of the Delta (New York: Greenfield Review Press, 1986).
• Children of Iroko & Other Poems (New York: Greenfield Review Press, 1973).

Fiction

• Matters of the Moment (Lagos: Malthouse, 2009).
• The Debt-Collector and Other Stories (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2009).
• The Activist (A Novel) (Lagos: Farafina Publications, 2006).
• Sovereign Body (A Novel) (Spring, TX: Panther Creek Press, 2004). Tanure Ojaide
• God’s Medicine Men and Other Stories (Lagos, Nigeria: Malthouse Ltd., 2004)

Non-fiction

• Great Boys: An African Childhood (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998). (a memoir)

References

• Tanure Ojaide - Poetry Africa 2005 at University of KwaZulu-Natal
• TanureOjaide.com
• Simon Gikandi, Encyclopedia of African Literature, Routledge, 2002