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  • History and Its True Colors
    Tanure Ojaide
    History and Its True Colors is the poet’s reflection on history from the multiple positionalities of creativity and self, personal relations, society, nationality, race, humanity, and life. The nine unique and yet interrelated movements of the collection not only memorialize the African past but also represent the journey to the past, for its remains still affect human experien...
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    29,68 €

  • Drawing the Map of Heaven. an African Writer in America
    Tanure Ojaide
    The celebrated Nigerian writer Tanure Ojaide relates here his experience of living in the United States where he has been based teaching and writing since 1996. Drawing the Map of Heaven picks up where his earlier memoir, Great Boys. An African Childhood which charted his upbringing in Nigeria by his Grandmother, left off. Less a purely personal tale and more a story of the ma...
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    53,73 €

  • The Old Man in a State House and Other Stories
    Tanure Ojaide
    The Old Man in a State House and Other Stories is a literary canvas which captures the restless matrix that is today’s Africa: the corruptive influence of a corrosive oil economy, environmental degradation, wealth and hubris, love and more. Tanure Ojaide has published sixteen collections of poetry, a memoir, three novels, two short story collections and scholarly works. He has ...
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    38,00 €

  • The Beauty I Have Seen. A Trilogy
    Tanure Ojaide
    The Beauty I Have Seen. A Trilogy comprises three phases in a poetic journey, ranging from the poet (here called a minstrel) as a public figure, a traveller and observer of humanity, to one grounded in the landscape and fate of his native land. In the various sections of 'The Beauty I have Seen', 'Doors of the Forest' and 'Flow and other Poems', Tanure Ojaide expresses multifar...
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    38,03 €

  • The Activist
    Tanure Ojaide
    In The Activist, Nigeria’s acclaimed poet, Tanure Ojaide, brings his sharp sensibilities and writing skills to prose storytelling. The protagonist makes a reverse trip from America to a home whose young and able are straining at the leash to escape to the perceived comforts of the West. Ojaide weaves a compelling narrative that illuminates the contradictions of state and societ...
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    15,66 €

  • Ordering the African imagination
    Tanure Ojaide
    Tanure Ojaide is an award-winning writer, both creative and academic. This collection of his essays and lectures from over the past decade, addresses issues of culture and literature from a personal African perspective. The focus of this book is African culture and its imaginative productions in the arts, especially in literature. The author also examines the direction of Afric...
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    53,90 €

  • The Poetry of Wole Soyinka
    Tanure Ojaide
    The Nobel Laureate’s reputation as a dramatist tends to cloud his poetic achievement, and in modern African literature, poetry lives in the shadow of fiction. The criticism of Soyinka’s poetry has so far centred on his themes of individuality and death, his imagery, and on the controversy over his authenticity, obscurity and difficulty. Here, in a new approach, an academic hims...
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    40,61 €

  • God’s Medicine Men & Other Stories
    Tanure Ojaide
    These ten short stories, of varying length, intensity and focus, are the first by Ojaide, published in the genre. The title story concerns the spiritual and sexual illusions, confusions and realities to which a young Nigerian girl, the daughter of a pastor, and the people in her milieu, are subjected. In a story entitled ’I Used to Drive a Mercedes’, the author satirises the li...
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    30,00 €

  • I Want to Dance and Other Poems
    Tanure Ojaide
    A new poetic work by one of Nigeria’s foremost contemporary poets, I Want to Dance is an extended song cycle, divided into three parts. In the song, the poetic voice undergoes a journey of experience from west to east and night to day and reflects upon moving away from and returning to home. ...
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    32,66 €

  • Delta Blues and Other Home Songs
    Tanure Ojaide
    This work takes in two collections of poetry. The poems of Delta Blues protests against the environmental degradation of the Niger Delta, and the devastation unleashed upon local populations, victims, and caught up in the race for oil. The younger poet dedicates his work to Ken Saro Wiwa, and other civil-rights activists. He writes about the irony of their mortality, which...
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    32,66 €