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  • Two Plays
    Niyi Osundare
    In the first play, The Man who Walked Away, a principled and sensitive young man who has served a multi-national company for decades, is ’retrenched’, with severe consequences for his self-respect and his family. In the second play, The Wedding Car, a corrupt businessman and politician exercises his ambition for his daughter to marry ostentatiously, though things do not go acco...
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    29,87 €

  • The Eye of the Earth
    Niyi Osundare / S.M.E. Lugumba / S.M.ELugumba
    A lyrical and panoramic body of poems from the prize-winning poet, informed by a revolutionary vision about the earth, our home. ...
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    37,56 €

  • Waiting Laughters
    Niyi Osundare
    Waiting Laughters is Osundare’s second volume of poetry, published to critical acclaim. In 1991, it won The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, the most prestigious book prize for new works published within the African continent. The collection is conceived as a poetic response to the gloom and despair gripping contemporary African society: the poems emphasise the possibility ...
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    34,16 €

  • The State Visit
    Niyi Osundare
    A recently published play from the prolific Nigerian poet, dramatist and literary critic, which testifies to the author’s commitment to socially relevant art and artistic activism for which he is justifiably renowned. The play tells the story of Yankeland, an imaginary African country, where the country’s natural and donated wealth is in the hands of a few corrupt rulers in cah...
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    26,96 €

  • Moonsongs
    Niyi Osundare
    Niyi Osundare is one of Nigeria’s most prominent writers, and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1991. Moonsongs won Honourable Mention in the 1989 Noma Award. The main body of the poems is given harmony by being centred on the image of the moon. Thirty-six poems explore original themes and imagery, enhanced by the rhythms of t...
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    40,52 €

  • Midlife
    Niyi Osundare
    One of Africa’s most highly acclaimed poets, whose garlands include the 1986 Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the 1991 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, this volume of poetry is part declarative, part confessional, part reflective, predominantly visionary. The volume was written around the poet’s fortieth birthday. It is a vibrant celebration of life, its lights and shadows, it...
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    34,16 €

  • Songs of the Marketplace
    Niyi Osundare
    Winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for 1986, Niyi Osundare is one of Nigeria’s most prominent younger writers. This first collection of his poetry is the expression of a critical awareness in its exploration of the social situation in contemporary Nigeria. In an introduction, Biodun Jeyifo remarks that his distinctive voice is attributable to the fact that his verses confr...
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    34,23 €