Niyi Osundare, the Nigerian literary critic and academic, is one of Africa's finest poets. He has won many awards thanks to his proficiency in poetry, including the Commonwealth writers' gong. Osundare is also a dramatist of note.
He has published many books over the decades, including - Songs from the Marketplace (1983), Village Voices (1984), The Eye of the Earth, Songs of the Season (1999), Waiting Laughters (1990, winner of the Noma Award), Selected Poems (1992), Midlife (1993), Thread in the Loom: Essays on African Literature and Culture (2002), The State Visit (2002, play), Early Birds (2004), Two Plays (2005), Tender Moments: Love Poems (2006)
Studies:
Songs for the thrush : poems of diamond celebration for Niyi Osundare
The poetry and poetics of Niyi Osundare
The poet as activist : Niyi Osundare versus Wole Soyinka by Chris
Anyokwu
Sexual discourse in Niyi Osundare's poetry : a socio-linguistic
reading by Samson A Dare
Context of situation and a poet's choice of words : the examples of
Dennis Brutus and Osundare by Alex A Maiyanga
The development of Niyi Osundare's poetry : a survey of themes and
technique by Aderemi Baminkunle
Niyi Osundare's poetry and the Yoruba oral artistic tradition by
Aderemi James Bamikunle
Studies:
Songs for the thrush : poems of diamond celebration for Niyi Osundare
The poetry and poetics of Niyi Osundare
The poet as activist : Niyi Osundare versus Wole Soyinka by Chris
Anyokwu
Sexual discourse in Niyi Osundare's poetry : a socio-linguistic
reading by Samson A Dare
Context of situation and a poet's choice of words : the examples of
Dennis Brutus and Osundare by Alex A Maiyanga
The development of Niyi Osundare's poetry : a survey of themes and
technique by Aderemi Baminkunle
Niyi Osundare's poetry and the Yoruba oral artistic tradition by
Aderemi James Bamikunle
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