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Grandma's Sun
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The Mines of His Mind
An innovative book that explores the complete works of Tayo Olafioye, including prose, verse and critical essays. Accessible and comprehensive, Mines of His Mind delves not only into the works of Olafioye but also into his history. Useful biographical information is also provided such as how he started his career in creative writing with insight into his first publications through to winning the Golden Pen Award.
The Parliament of Idiots
A new collection from Tayo Olafioye, the prize winning poet, novelist and scholar, active in Nigeria and the United States. Olafioye is the author of nine collections of poetry including recently, Carnival of Looters (Kraft Books, 2000), critical works and his semi- fictional autobiography, Grandma's Sun. A Childhood Memory from Africa (Kraft Books 2000). The themes in this collection include home-grown, postcolonial political tyranny, the masquerades of contemporary Nigerian governance, its disregard for the welfare of the state and the subsequent impact on the individual. In the words of the author: 'its constituency of offenders and those who by tacit or explicit commission participate in this particular scandal...' The title poem declares: 'There is no dawn yet For our city of nights There is no sun yet For our harmattan skies There is no hope yet For our wounded hearts.' Some other themes explored in the poems are dying, disease, family reunions, nostalgia and the poet's migrations between his roots in Nigeria and adopted home in the States. Es'kia Mphahlele, Professor Emeritus of African Literature in South Africa, contributes an introduction to Olafioye's work
Ogoni's Agonies
The book offers a wide range of perspectives on the crisis. It includes detailed historical analyses of the Ogoni people, of Nigerian politics, and of the international responses to the Saro-Wiwa execution. It also includes a strong body of critical responses to the work of Ken Saro-Wiwa, and to his importance as a Nigerian intellectual and activist.
Focus on Nigeria
This issue of Matatu offers cutting-edge studies of contemporary Nigerian literature, a selection of short fiction and poetry, and a range of essays on various themes of political, artistic, socio-linguistic, and sociological interest. Contributions on theatre focus on the fool as dramatic character and on the feminist theatre of exclusion (Tracie Uto-Ezeajugh). Several essays examine the poetry of Hope Eghagha and the Delta writer Tanure Ojaide. Studies of the prose fiction of Chinua Achebe, Tayo Olafioye, Uwem Akpan, and Chimamanda Adichie are complemented by a searching exposé of the exploitation of Ayi Kwei Armah on the part of the metropolitan publishing world and by a recent interview...
War in African Literature Today
Since the second half of the twentieth century, no single phenomenon has marred the image and development of Africa more than senseless fratricidal wars which rapidly followed the political independence of nations. This issue of African Literature Today is devoted to studies of how African writers, as historical witnesses, have handled the recreation of war as a cataclysmic phenomenon in various locations on the continent. The contributors explore the subject from a variety of perspectives: panoramic, regional, national and through comparative studies. War has enriched contemporary African literature, but at what price to human lives, peace and the environment? ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. The contributors include: CHIMALUM NWANKWO, CHRISTINE MATZKE, CLEMENT A. OKAFOR, INIBONG I. UKO, OIKE MACHIKO, SOPHIE OGWUDE, MAURICE TAONEZVI VAMBE, ZOE NORRIDGE and ISIDORE DIALA. Nigeria: HEBN
The Poetry of Tanure Ojaide
Tanure Ojaide is one of the most important voices in the generation of African writers following Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. Here, the author investigates the themes and images in Ojaide's poetry; epigraphic howlings of Tanure Ojaide, the universality of Ojaide's poetry; and the impact of his poetry on society.
