Tanure Ojaide
Biographic Data
| ID | 131555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanure Ojaide |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanure |
| FAMILY NAME | Ojaide |
| SIGNATURE | OJAIDE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6918-2971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Language of Languages by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o (review)
Reviewed by: The Language of Languages by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o Tanure Ojaide NGŨGĨ WA THIONG'O The Language of Languages London. Seagull. 2023. 116 pages. NGŨGĨ' WA THIONG'O'S advocacy of Africans writing in their own African languages and then translating to other African and foreign languages began in 1977 with his writing in Gikũyũ. However, the lectures and talks in The Language of Languages took place between 2000 and 2019. There is consistency…
African Battle Traditions of Insult: Verbal Arts, Song-Poetry, and Performance
The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta
Introduction / Tanure Ojaide and Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega -- Towards a Bio-regional, Politico-Historical, and Socio-Cultural Identity of the Niger Delta / Tanure Ojaide -- Form and Content of Ibibio Traditional Festivals: Ekpo, Ekpe and Mbopo / Effiok Bassey Uwatt -- Traditional Ijo Poetry / Imomotimi Armstrong -- The Cultural Aesthetics of Benin Traditional Festival Performances / Josephine Ebiuwa Abbe -- Urhobo Udje: An Indigenous Satiric Gen…
Tradition and subjectivities: Warri-related comedians and their art
By some coincidence, many Nigerian stand-up comedians were born, raised, live in, or are associated with Warri and its environs. By Warri, as understood in the area, we mean Warri and its surroundings and, to a large extent, what is called the ‘core Delta’ of Nigeria’s Delta State. The comedians include Gordons, I Go Dye, AY and Real Warri Pikin. We investigate what is possibly responsible for the natural talent of these comedians. We relate the …
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
In the Company of the Muse
verse, with a strong eroticism that has in time acquired more and more mystical nuances.” The foreword is offset at the end of the book by contributors’ notes, which more soberly record birth years, occupations, prizes, and various other distinctions without giving a clear sense of poetic genealogy or alliances. But what of the poems? It seems impossible to generalize about so many writers working from different aesthetic principles . Many of the…
Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature
Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience
Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking
An Unusual Growth: The Development of Tijan M. Sallah’s Poetry
Tijan M. Sallah is not the conventional African poet like Kofi Anyidoho, Frank Chipasula, Jack Mapanje, Chimalum Nwankwo, Niyi Osundare, and Tanure Ojaide, among so many others, who studied literature and teach literature in universities in Africa or in the West. He studied economics at both Berea College and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is an economist by profession. After a short period of university teaching in the U…
African Literary Aesthetics: Continuity and Change
African Literary Aesthetics: Continuity and Change." Journal of the African Literature Association, 6(2), pp. 114–132
Poetry
Poetry
The Minstrel Wails
Culture, Society and Politics in Modern African Literature: Texts and Contexts
Tanure Ojaide and Joseph Obi. Culture, Society and Politics in Modern African Literature: Texts and Contexts. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. xi + 185 pp. Notes. Index. Price not reported. Paper. Culture, Society and Politics in Modern Africa is a novelty in the field of African literature. Two scholars from different disciplines, but obviously kindred spirits, have joined hands to present a coherent view of modern African literature…
Conversations with Wole Soyinka
The Poetry of Tanure Ojaide: A Critical Appraisal
Poetry, Performance, and Art: Udje Dance Songs of Nigeria's Urhobo People
The Malian philosopher Hampaté Bâ states that in Africa, "a dying old man is a burning library" (qtd. in Sallah 35). Traditional African culture is oral, and the literature in the forms of epic, legend, folktale, song, and others is transmitted by word of mouth from one generation to another. Ba's metaphor of a burning library underscores both the limitations of an oral culture such as the traditional African and the urgent need to retrieve as mu…
Xhosa Poets and Poetry
Xhosa oral poetry has defied the threats to its integrity over two centuries, to take its place in a free South Africa. This volume establishes the background to this poetic re-emergence, preserving and transmitting the voice of the Xhosa poet
Readings in African Popular Culture
Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa
Whispers in the Wings: Poems
Collected Plays and Poems: 1958-88
Who's Afraid of Wole Soyinka? Essays on Censorship
Adewale Maja-Pearce analyzes contemporary African politics and society with absolute candor in these essays. Drawing on first-hand observations, and on conversations with journalists, intellectuals, students, artists, taxi drivers, and businessmen, he exposes the abuse of human rights by African governments, and celebrates the courage of those individuals who stand up to tyranny
Modern African Literature and Cultural Identity
Modern African literature has gained recognition worldwide with such classics as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Ngugi wa Thiongo's Weep Not Child, and Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman. This recognition was reinforced by Soyinka's winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Modern African literature is written in indigenous African languages and in European languages used in Africa. Written African literature is very new com…
Ogun Widens His Haunt: Wole Soyinka's New Poems
Modern African Literature and Cultural Identity
Modern African literature has gained recognition worldwide with such classics as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Ngugi wa Thiongo's Weep Not Child, and Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman. This recognition was reinforced by Soyinka's winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Modern African literature is written in indigenous African languages and in European languages used in Africa. Written African literature is very new com…
Xhosa Poets and Poetry
Xhosa oral poetry has defied the threats to its integrity over two centuries, to take its place in a free South Africa. This volume establishes the background to this poetic re-emergence, preserving and transmitting the voice of the Xhosa poet
Readings in African Popular Culture
Who's Afraid of Wole Soyinka? Essays on Censorship
Adewale Maja-Pearce analyzes contemporary African politics and society with absolute candor in these essays. Drawing on first-hand observations, and on conversations with journalists, intellectuals, students, artists, taxi drivers, and businessmen, he exposes the abuse of human rights by African governments, and celebrates the courage of those individuals who stand up to tyranny
The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta
Introduction / Tanure Ojaide and Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega -- Towards a Bio-regional, Politico-Historical, and Socio-Cultural Identity of the Niger Delta / Tanure Ojaide -- Form and Content of Ibibio Traditional Festivals: Ekpo, Ekpe and Mbopo / Effiok Bassey Uwatt -- Traditional Ijo Poetry / Imomotimi Armstrong -- The Cultural Aesthetics of Benin Traditional Festival Performances / Josephine Ebiuwa Abbe -- Urhobo Udje: An Indigenous Satiric Gen…
Tradition and subjectivities: Warri-related comedians and their art
By some coincidence, many Nigerian stand-up comedians were born, raised, live in, or are associated with Warri and its environs. By Warri, as understood in the area, we mean Warri and its surroundings and, to a large extent, what is called the ‘core Delta’ of Nigeria’s Delta State. The comedians include Gordons, I Go Dye, AY and Real Warri Pikin. We investigate what is possibly responsible for the natural talent of these comedians. We relate the …
Conversations with Wole Soyinka
The Poetry of Tanure Ojaide: A Critical Appraisal
Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa
Poetic Viewpoint: Okot P'Bitek and His Personae
Wole Soyinka's Ogun Abibiman
No abstract
Poetic Viewpoint: Okot P'Bitek and His Personae
My poetry: English language and the African tradition
Ogun Widens His Haunt: Wole Soyinka's New Poems
Who's Afraid of Wole Soyinka? Essays on Censorship
Adewale Maja-Pearce analyzes contemporary African politics and society with absolute candor in these essays. Drawing on first-hand observations, and on conversations with journalists, intellectuals, students, artists, taxi drivers, and businessmen, he exposes the abuse of human rights by African governments, and celebrates the courage of those individuals who stand up to tyranny
Modern African Literature and Cultural Identity
Modern African literature has gained recognition worldwide with such classics as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Ngugi wa Thiongo's Weep Not Child, and Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman. This recognition was reinforced by Soyinka's winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Modern African literature is written in indigenous African languages and in European languages used in Africa. Written African literature is very new com…
Whispers in the Wings: Poems
Collected Plays and Poems: 1958-88
Readings in African Popular Culture
Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa
Xhosa Poets and Poetry
Xhosa oral poetry has defied the threats to its integrity over two centuries, to take its place in a free South Africa. This volume establishes the background to this poetic re-emergence, preserving and transmitting the voice of the Xhosa poet
Poetry, Performance, and Art: Udje Dance Songs of Nigeria's Urhobo People
The Malian philosopher Hampaté Bâ states that in Africa, "a dying old man is a burning library" (qtd. in Sallah 35). Traditional African culture is oral, and the literature in the forms of epic, legend, folktale, song, and others is transmitted by word of mouth from one generation to another. Ba's metaphor of a burning library underscores both the limitations of an oral culture such as the traditional African and the urgent need to retrieve as mu…
Conversations with Wole Soyinka
The Poetry of Tanure Ojaide: A Critical Appraisal
Culture, Society and Politics in Modern African Literature: Texts and Contexts
Tanure Ojaide and Joseph Obi. Culture, Society and Politics in Modern African Literature: Texts and Contexts. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. xi + 185 pp. Notes. Index. Price not reported. Paper. Culture, Society and Politics in Modern Africa is a novelty in the field of African literature. Two scholars from different disciplines, but obviously kindred spirits, have joined hands to present a coherent view of modern African literature…
Poetry
The Minstrel Wails
Poetry
African Literary Aesthetics: Continuity and Change
African Literary Aesthetics: Continuity and Change." Journal of the African Literature Association, 6(2), pp. 114–132
Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature
Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience
Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking
An Unusual Growth: The Development of Tijan M. Sallah’s Poetry
Tijan M. Sallah is not the conventional African poet like Kofi Anyidoho, Frank Chipasula, Jack Mapanje, Chimalum Nwankwo, Niyi Osundare, and Tanure Ojaide, among so many others, who studied literature and teach literature in universities in Africa or in the West. He studied economics at both Berea College and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is an economist by profession. After a short period of university teaching in the U…
In the Company of the Muse
verse, with a strong eroticism that has in time acquired more and more mystical nuances.” The foreword is offset at the end of the book by contributors’ notes, which more soberly record birth years, occupations, prizes, and various other distinctions without giving a clear sense of poetic genealogy or alliances. But what of the poems? It seems impossible to generalize about so many writers working from different aesthetic principles . Many of the…
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Tradition and subjectivities: Warri-related comedians and their art
By some coincidence, many Nigerian stand-up comedians were born, raised, live in, or are associated with Warri and its environs. By Warri, as understood in the area, we mean Warri and its surroundings and, to a large extent, what is called the ‘core Delta’ of Nigeria’s Delta State. The comedians include Gordons, I Go Dye, AY and Real Warri Pikin. We investigate what is possibly responsible for the natural talent of these comedians. We relate the …
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