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Tanure Ojaide
Academic, professor of Africana studies, Nigerian writer · Nigeria · On the map · Academics · Born 1948 · age 78
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.
Tanure Ojaide is read about 8 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 25 September 2026
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He won the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa with his collection Songs of Myself: A Quartet (2017).
Country
Nigeria
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1948 · age 78
