Tanure Ojaide is a prolific Nigerian poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 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

Africa

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 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

Association of Nigerian Authors

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' 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)