tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25528121218882056852024-03-05T15:58:49.116-08:00Niyi OsundareAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05282334823332264546noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552812121888205685.post-65146542290225869692015-03-23T15:22:00.003-07:002015-03-23T15:22:39.462-07:00THE EMPEROR DOLES THE DOLLAR - NIYI OSUNDARE<span style="color: #38761d;"> THE EMPEROR DOLES THE DOLLAR - NIYI OSUNDARE</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> The Emperor hits the streets<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> With a cargo of cash<br /> Ah! The Emperor hits the streets<br /> With a cargo of cash<br /> Convoys so loaded with lustful loot<br /> A huge fortune, to them, is a trifle ‘dash’*</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"> The first ports of call are the kings’ domains<br /> The regal post for the fattest bribe<br /> Say, the first ports of call are the kings’ domains<br /> The regal post for the fattest bribe<br /> They pledge their crowns, they pledge their beads<br /> And whatever else is sacred in their swindled tribe</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> To every Oba his dollar dole<br /> The Obis get their own in sparkling sterling<br /> Eewo!** To every Oba his dollar dole<br /> The Obis get their own in sparkling sterling<br /> The royal groveling that Greeks the gift<br /> Is way beyond my plebeian telling</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> The Empress lumbers large to grease and grab<br /> With her cache of gold for the womenfolk<br /> See, the Empress looms large to grease and grab<br /> With her cache of gold for the womenfolk<br /> Every word is a Malaprop Moment<br /> A sick, sad country and its silly joke</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> Bribe the Pastors, bribe the Thugs<br /> Pound and plunder the national treasury<br /> Say, bribe the Pastors, bribe the Thugs<br /> Pound and plunder the national treasury<br /> Press the flesh, pull the polls<br /> Rake in the gains of your hard-bought treachery</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> II</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> Corruption has a room<br /> In the house called Nigeria<br /> Hear? Corruption has a large room<br /> In the house called Nigeria<br /> It waxes hot and lethal<br /> Like a drug-defying malaria</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> You help rig the polls<br /> At the Emperor’s behest<br /> Yes, you help rig the polls<br /> At the Emperor’s behest<br /> Suborn the Army, pollute the Police<br /> And grab your reward and feather your nest </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> The dirtier the deed<br /> The higher the prize<br /> Say, the dirtier the deed<br /> The higher the prize<br /> The Nation’s hallowed creed<br /> Is a litany of lies</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> The Minister looted the Treasury<br /> And received a GCFR<br /> Haba! The Minister looted the Treasury<br /> And received a GCFR<br /> His/her Pastor praised the Lord<br /> For the big, undetected robbery</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> Will the Emperor buy the votes<br /> With his endless chest of dollars?<br /> Asking, will he buy the votes<br /> With his chest of countless dollars?<br /> There is nothing beyond purchase<br /> In a land of venal crawlers</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> *Dash: ‘tip’ in Nigerian English<br /> **Eewo!: abomination!</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> Niyi Osundare</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Widely regarded as one
of Africa’s preeminent writers and scholars, Niyi Osundare is a Nigerian poet,
playwright, essayist, human/environmental rights activist, and distinguished Professor
of English. He was born in Ikere-Ekiti in 1947. He received his primary
education at St. Luke’s School, Ikere, where he was best student in his class
and lead actor in the school drama in his graduating year; secondary education at
Amoye Grammar School also in Ikere where he edited the school magazine and graduated
in 1966 with what was hailed as one of the best results in the West African School
Certificate Examination (WASCE); his higher secondary school education at
Christ’s School, Ado Ekiti where he excelled in academics, drama, and campus
journalism. At Christ’s School, he served as editor-in-chief to the team that
revived <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Agidimo</i>, the school
newsletter. He went on to edit <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Green
Champion</i>, official magazine of Dallimore House, and collaborated with his
former teacher, Christopher Ward, in the writing of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Not In Name Only. </i>He earned his university education from three
continents: BA Honours in English from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria; M.A.
in Modern English from the University of Leeds, UK; PhD in English from York
University, Toronto, Canada.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Teaching
Career</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Niyi Osundare’s
teaching career spans several decades. He started his university teaching
career at his alma mater, the University of Ibadan, in 1974, rising to the rank
of Professor in 1989, and was Head of the English Department from 1993 to 1997.
He was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
1990-1991, and Visiting Professor and Poet-in-residence at Franklin Pierce
University, Rindge, New Hampshire, September 2005 to January 2006. At the
University of New Orleans where he currently teaches, he was appointed Research
Professor, Endowed Africana Professor, and, ultimately, Distinguished Professor
of English, 2012 to date.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As a teacher for over
40 years, he is keenly aware of the importance of education in human
development and passionately involved with the strategies for elevating the
quality and character of education as a tool for national and international
understanding and cooperation, and prime investment in the future. Many of the
products of his creative writing workshops in Nigeria and elsewhere have become
productive writers and teachers in their own right.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Literary
Career</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To date, Osundare has
authored 18 books of poetry, two books of Selected Poems, four plays, two books
of essays, and numerous scholarly monographs, articles, and reviews on
literature and culture. Some of his works include <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Songs of the Marketplace</i>, 1983, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Village
Voices</i>, 1984, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waiting Laughters</i>,
1990, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Days</i>, 2007 and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">City Without People: the Katrina Poems</i>,
2011. His poems have appeared in over 70 journals and magazines in different
parts of the world while many of them have been translated into many languages
across the globe. A believer in the intimate relationship between poetry and
music, and the philosophy of poetry-as-performance, he has carried out readings
and performances of his poetry on all the continents of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To him poetry and music
are Siamese twins joined in every vital part of their bodies; most times he <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sees</i></b>
his lines with his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ears</i>. </b>His rhythm responds to the deep-timbred cadence of the
drum.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Prizes
and Awards</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Niyi Osundare has won
numerous prizes and awards over the years. Among his many prizes are the
Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize, the Cadbury/ANA Poetry Prize
(which he won on two occasions), the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Noma Award <b>(Africa's
most prestigious Book Award)</b>, the Tchicaya U Tam’si Award for African
Poetry (generally regarded as “<b>Africa’s highest poetry prize”),</b> and the
Fonlon/Nichols Award for "<b>excellence in literary creativity combined
with significant contributions to Human Rights in Africa"</b>. In 2004,
his award-winning book, <i>The Eye of the Earth, </i>was selected as <b>One of
Nigeria’s Best 25 Books in the Past 25 Years </b>by Spectrum Books; and in 2012
one of his poems was selected as Nigeria’s contribution to the cultural events
which complemented the London Olympics<b>. </b>He has been recipient of
honorary doctorates from l'Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail in France and
Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, USA. On December 4, 2014, Osundare recieved
<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><a href="http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2014/11/major_award_for_uno_professor.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Nigerian National Order of Merit</span></a>; awarded in
recognition of his </span>“service to humanity in the field of humanities”. He “has
successfully carved his name in gold in the hearts of people of this nation (Nigeria)
and many nations of the world”.<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Public
Discourse</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Undoubtedly one of
Nigeria’s eminent Public Intellectuals and consistent social critics, Niyi
Osundare has, through his numerous articles, interviews, press statements, and
suchlike media interventions, contributed immensely to the elevation of public
discourse in Nigeria, and helped to raise the level of national awareness. He
is reputed for his blunt, forthright, but fair, well-reasoned, and patriotic
views and perspectives on national and international issues as they relate to
Social Justice, Human Rights,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Democracy,
and the Environment. For about 25 years, 1986-2013, he was a columnist for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newswatch</i>, Nigeria’s premier
newsmagazine. (A selection from his columns for this magazine has now been
published under the title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dialogue with
My Country, </i>while plans are afoot to publish a selection of his
interventions in Nigerian newspapers from 1979 to date<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">).</i>And in an effort to popularize written poetry as a medium of
social mobilization and enlightenment, he started, in 1985, the longest-running
individual weekly poetry column in Nigeria, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sunday Tribune</i>. A scholarly account of his experience in this
form of verse journalism, entitled ‘Bard of the Tabloid Platform: A Personal
Experience of Newspaper Poetry in Nigeria’was the invited banquet speech at the
1987 Canadian Association of African Studies, and has since been published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mapping Intersections: African Literature
and Africa’s Development</i>(an African Literature Association (ALA)
publication edited by Anne Adams and Janis Mayes).</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Social
and Artistic Activism</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A vehement champion of
the right to free speech and strong believer in the transformative power of
words, Osundare anchors his credo on two of his favourite sayings: “To utter is
to alter” and “The Word is an egg” (the latter, a translation of a Yoruba
adage, is the title of one of his poetry books). He is renowned for his
commitment to art that is socially relevant art and aesthetically accomplished.
According to him:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The
very calling of the artist/writer is a political statement; with writers from
historically disadvantaged parts of the world, political consciousness becomes
a social, almost existential imperative. Moral apathy is a luxury we can ill
afford. Silence is oftentimes an evasion of moral responsibility, an advertent
or inadvertent collusion with those whose noise enslaves the world. We areas implicated
and committed by every word we utter, every word we write; as we are by every
word we fail to utter, every word we refuse to write - by the very way we intrude
upon the universe of being. Facile, absolutist aestheticism is no defence, for beauty
devoid ofa deep social-moral bearing is incomplete, very much the same way
moral burden without aesthetic integrity is nothing but a millstone around the
neck of the work. For me, form is a faithful companion of function.According to
Yoruba aesthetic philosophy to which I am gratefully indebted, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ewa
ti ko wulo ewa yepere<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> (Beauty that is not
useful is idle beauty), a kind of beauty that is something close to a waste,
even a betrayal of the artistic vision. I consider myself in the league of
writers who can never be indifferent to the world; for I believe that if as a
writer you refuse to take interest in the human condition, you should not be
surprised if, in the end, only corpses and skeletons are left to read your
works. Hence my overriding watchword: Humanity First . . .”</i>On another occasion,
his focus falls specifically on the African condition: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"You cannot keep
quiet about the situation in the kind of countries we find ourselves in, in
Africa. When you wake up and there is no running water, when you have a massive
power outage for days and nights, no food on the table, no hospital for the
sick, no peace of mind; when the image of the ruler you see everywhere is that
of a dictator with a gun in his hand; and, on the international level, when you
live in a world in which your continent is consigned to the margin, a world in
which the colour of your skin is a constant disadvantage, everywhere you go –
then there is no other way than to write about this, in an attempt to change
the situation for the better.</span></div>
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Osundare’s practice of the poetry of social and
political relevance came to the fore in Nigeria’s long years of military
dictatorship and repression, during which period the poet engaged in the poetry
of mobilization and resistance through modulated metaphors and ingenious
parables. This method, in his own words, was his “antidote against silence”
particularly under the brutal <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rule of
the dictator General <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani_Abacha" title="Sani Abacha">Sani Abacha</a> (1993–1998), when vocal opposition
became<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a mortal risk and the “indirect
song” gained currency as ballads of resistance. It was during this repressive
era that he wrote ‘Not My Business’, which has now turned out to be one of his
most studied poems. Osundare’s regular weekly poetry columns became the “Sunday
tonic” for many Nigerians, and responses flowed from readers who confessed they
found their voices in his songs (a selection from these poems from 1985 to 1990
now form part of the collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Songs of
the Season)</i>. These songs criticised the regime and commented upon the lives
of people in Nigeria. As a result he was frequently visited by Security Agents
and asked to explain his poems and to whom they referred:</div>
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"By that time I realized that the Nigerian
security apparatus had become quite 'sophisticated', quite 'literate'
indeed!"</div>
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"A couple of my students at the University
of Ibadan had become informers; a few even came to my classes wired. And when I
was reading abroad, someone trailed me from city to city. At home, my letters
were frequently intercepted</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since Nigeria’s return
to civil democracy in 1999, Osundare has shown in his writings that the old
monsters of social injustice and corruption have only changed their style and
not their substance.In 2004, his weekly poetry column in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sunday Tribune</i> was re-invigorated and
re-named <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lifelines, </i>and since
December 2006, the new title has run under a sub-title, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Random Blues,</i> which employs the rhymed six-line format of the blues
genre in its exploration of various experiences from the private to the public,
the personal to the political.(The first collection from these blues was
published in book form in 2011, and plans are afoot for the publication of subsequent
volumes). In this forum aswell as his other media outlets, Osundare continues
his attack on corruption, electoral malpractice, impunity, social inequity, environmental
degradation, and suchlike evils without forgetting to mention the potential
beauty of life and the possibility of hope. <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">(For his open letters to public functionaries, see Letters
to President Obasanjo and Yar’Adua; letters to Nigeria’s Ministers of
Education; for the State-of-the-Nation Lecture on Corruption, see ‘Why We No
Longer Blush: Corruption as Grand Commander of the Federal Republic of Nigeria</span>
and so on.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Literary
Prizes and Awards</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2014<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><a href="http://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CC8QqQIwBA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nola.com%2Feducation%2Findex.ssf%2F2014%2F11%2Fmajor_award_for_uno_professor.html&ei=rX11VKnUFKGS7AbK64HwDA&usg=AFQjCNE4dVd8N771ycwQA5OnSMlHP0g54Q&sig2=WtQpQ4muEpeDy7i7iWSbdw" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Nigerian National Order of Merit</span></a> (Nigeria’s
highest award for academic excellence)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2008<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Tchicaya U ‘Tamsi Award for African
Poetry (regarded as Africa’s highest poetry <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>prize)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2004<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Spectrum Books Award to The Eye of the
Earth as “One of Nigeria’s Best 25 Books <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>in
the Last 25 Years”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1998<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Fonlon/Nichols Prize for “Excellence in
Literary Creativity Combined with Significant <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Contributions
to Human Rights in Africa”; African Literature Association (ALA)’s most <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>distinguished award)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1994<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cadbury/ANA Poetry Prize (Nigeria’s highest
poetry prize). Also won the maiden edition <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>in
1989</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1991<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Noma Award (Africa’s most prestigious Book
Award; the first Anglophone African poet <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>to
receive the award</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1991<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kwanza Award</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1986<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Joint-Winner, Overall Commonwealth Poetry
Prize</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1986<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Poetry
Prize</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1989<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Honorable Mention, Noma Award</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1986<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Honorable Mention, Noma Award</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1981<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Major Book Prize and Letter of Commendation,
BBC Poetry Competition</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1968<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>First Prize, Western State of Nigeria Poetry
Competition</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">List
of Works</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Poetry:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2011<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">City
Without People: The Katrina Poems</i>, Boston: Black Widow Press</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2011<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Random
Blues?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2006<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tender
Moments: </i>Love<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Poems</i>, Ibadan
(Nigeria): African University Press</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2004<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Early
Birds: Poems for Junior Secondary, Book One, Book Two, Book Three</i>, Ibadan
(Nigeria): Spectrum Books</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2002<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pages
From The Book of the Sun: New & Selected Poems, </i>Trenton (New Jersey):
African World Press</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2000<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Word Is An Egg,</i> Ibadan (Nigeria): Kraft Books</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1998<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Horses
of Memory,</i> Ibadan (Nigeria): Heinemann Educational Books</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1995<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Seize
the Day,</i> Ibadan (Nigeria): AgboAreo Publishers</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1993<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Midlife</i>,
Ibadan (Nigeria): Heinemann Educational Books</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1992<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Selected
Poems</i>, Oxford (UK): Heinemann International</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1990<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waiting
Laughters</i>, Lagos & Oxford (UK): Malthouse Press</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1990<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Songs
of the Season</i>, Ibadan (Nigeria): Heinemann Educational Books</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1988<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moonsongs,</i>
Ibadan (Nigeria): Spectrum Books</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1986<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Eye of the Earth,</i> Ibadan (Nigeria): Heinemann Educational Books</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1986<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Nib
in the Pond,</i> Ile Ife (Nigeria): Ife University Monograph Series</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1984<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Village
Voices</i>, Ibadan (Nigeria): Evans Brothers Nigeria</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1983<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Songs
of the Marketplace,</i>Ibadan (Nigeria): New Horn Press</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Drama:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2004<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Two
Plays,</i> Ibadan (Nigeria): University Press</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2002<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
State Visit,</i> Ibadan (Nigeria): Kraftbooks</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Academic</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2002<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thread
in the Loom: Essays on African Literature and Culture,</i> New Jersey: African
World Press</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Public Discourse</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2007<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dialogue
with My Country: Selections from the Newswatch Column, 1986-2003,</i> Ibadan
(Nigeria): Bookcraft</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Works in Translation</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2006<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">L’occhiodella
Terra</i> (Italian translation of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Eye
of the Earth)</i>, by Pietro Deandrea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2004<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">RiresenAttente</i>
(French translation of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waiting Laughters</i>),
Christiane Fioupou</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2004<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ZgovornoDarilo</i>
(Slovenian translation of a selection of Osundare’s poems), by Jure Potoka</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2003<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chci
Se Dotknout Sveta</i> (Czech translation of a selection of Osundare’s poems),
Eva Klimentova</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CRITICAL RESPONSES TO AND INSTITUTIONAL RECOGNITION OF NIYI OSUNDARE’S
WORKS</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Osundare’s works have been the subject of critical and pedagogical<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>studies in different parts of the world,
especially in his country, Nigeria, where they are on the reading list from
elementary<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>university
level. His poem, “Not My Business”, is on the high school syllabus in the U.K.,
while at the University of Uyo, Nigeria, he has been<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>featured in the <b>Special Author</b> course
for senior undergraduates. His works are also subjects of numerous B.A. and
M.A. research projects and Ph.D. dissertations. <b>Book length</b> studies and
monographs based on them so far include: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Gabriel Osoba. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Niyi Osundare’s (Early) Poetry: An
Interdisciplinary Perspective</i>(272 pages)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah
ed.: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The People’s Poet: Emerging
Perspectives on Niyi Osundare, </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2003,
Africa World Press<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(629 pages).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Saleh Abdu: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poet of the People’s
Republic: Reading the Poetry of Niyi Osundare</i>, Benchmark Publishers (382
pages). </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Poetics and Poetry of Niyi Osundare, (</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">published proceedings of a conference on Osundare’s
works), Abia State University, Nigeria, 2004</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">IbiwariIkiriko: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Baffling Baptism of Nature: Niyi Osundare’s
The Eye of the Earth, </i>1999 (83 pages)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">AsomwanSonnieAdagbonyin:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Niyi Osundare: Two Essays and an
Interview</i>, Sam Bookman, 1996 (133 pages)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sable:
The Litmag for New Writing, London, UK 2003</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">. (Featured as
Spotlight Interviewee and Cover Personality).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Wole Olanipekun<i> The Role of Literature in the
Cultural and Socio-Political Development of Nigeria: Niyi Osundare as a Case
Study, </i>Lagos, Nigeria: Franjane Ventures, 2007 (52-page monograph).</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Niyi Osundare at the University of Huddersfield: May
11<sup>th</sup> 2007, </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">DVD</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, University of Huddersfield, UK.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Niyi
Osundare on the Threshold Between Yoruba and English; </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Video interview by
Christiane Fioupou; produced by Bruno Bastard. Universite de Toulous-Le Mirail,
1999.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TRIBUTE</span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Songs for the Thrush: Poems of Diamond Celebration for
Niyi Osundare, </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ebika
Anthony (ed.),Ibadan: Creative Books, 2007.(48 pages).Anthology of poems by
various poets as part of Osundare’s 60<sup>th</sup> birthday literary fete.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Britannic Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Yes, parallel lines meet</span></span></div>
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<![endif]-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05282334823332264546noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552812121888205685.post-68752190840265820352013-02-04T04:48:00.001-08:002013-02-04T04:48:25.125-08:00Adumaradan
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Adumaradan* </strong></span></span>
<br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">Your love engulfs me<br />
As the harmattan overwhelms the heat<br />
I will pledge a thousand favours to the wind<br />
To courier my voice to your ears</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"> Adumaradan, come close to me<br />
So you can behold the honour of my presence</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">Since the day I set eyes on you<br />
Since the day I had a glimpse of your beauty<br />
Your love has ridden me like a horse of wild winds<br />
I cannot sleep; repose is far from my eyes</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"> Adumaradan, come close to me<br />
So you can behold the honour of my presence</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">Adumaradan of inestimable beauty<br />
You are the palm oil, honour of the soup<br />
You are the whiteness which proclaims the splendour of the teeth<br />
You are camwood, deep red in the house of beauty</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"> Adumaradan, come close to me<br />
So you can behold the honour of my presence</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">What is the weaverbird’s work if not the building of wondrous
nests<br />
What is the crab’s task if not the digging of holes in the
swamp<br />
What job has the scarab beetle besides the music of the heights<br />
What is the lover’s duty if not the pouring of honey into
the ears of the beloved</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"> Adumaradan, come close to me <br />
So you can behold the honour of my presence</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">Teeth-whiter-than-new-coins, owner of the alluring toothgap<br />
She of the bouncing buttocks, who-adorns-the-chest-with-breasts<br />
Adufe**, paragon of beauty so full of wisdom<br />
Come let’s play the game of the young and free</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"> Adumaradan, come close to me<br />
So you can behold the honour of my presence</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><em>Notes</em><br /><em>* One-whose-blackness-is-the-beauty-of-her-skin<br />
** The-one-for-whose-favour-the-world-competes</em></span>
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