# Tanure Ojaide

> Tanure Ojaide is a Nigerian poet and academic. As a writer, he is noted for his unique stylistic vision and for his intense criticism of imperialism, religion, and other issues. He is regarded as a socio-political and an ecocentric poet. He won the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa with his collection Songs of Myself: A Quartet (2017).

*Academic, professor of Africana studies, Nigerian writer*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Nigeria
- **Born:** 1948
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
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- **Profile completeness:** 65.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **LINKEDIN**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanure-ojaide-112456ba/ (@tanure-ojaide-112456ba)
- **WEBSITE**: https://pages.uncc.edu/tanure-ojaide/

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