Literature and Culture in Global Africa

Ojaide, Tanure

Reference

Routledge

The winner of the 1987 African Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Prize and the 1988 All-Africa Akigo Prize for Poetry offers a collection of simple rhythmical poems presented in a style which disguises their deep-rooted political content.

The Blood of Peace and Other Poems (African Writers Series)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Heinemann

Few coming-of-age accounts have come to us from Africa. Ojaide, a distinguished poet, is a fresh voice. The author writes: "I consider myself fortunate to have experienced traditional African culture firsthand before its transformation by modernity. Great Boys: An African Childhood is about my upbringing in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria. My grandmother who raised me told me the beginning of my life, including my father's visit to seek my mother's hand and why my father at my birth reported to relatives that I was a girl. I took over my story from when I was about three and a half years."

Great Boys: An African Childhood

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Africa World Pr

Invoking the Warrior Spirit: New and Selected Poems

History & Criticism

In the Kingdom of Songs: A Trilogy of Poems, 1952-2000

From the publisher's website: In the Kingdom of Songs, a harvest of many years (1995-2000), Tanure Ojaide brings together related, but different poetic expeditions: "In the Kingdom of Songs, " "Home Truths," and "When It No Longer Matters Where You Live." In this trilogy, the poet presents art that defies frontiers. His poems engage as much of the Niger Delta world of Nigeria as of Spain's Andalucia and elsewhere. Here is the real and surreal foraging of the imagination as the poet brings it to play in the emotional and the artistic. With lavish skill and wealth of words, Tanure Ojaide paints the "kingdom of songs" where "agony lives by ecstasy, tears by laughter, hate by love, and death by life." The "kingdom of songs," which increasingly becomes aesthetic, human, and personal, "cares for fauna and flora and the entire earth" as it rails against exploitation, oppression, and the lack of freedom. It is an experienced artist's canvas of the intricacies of life and the human condition. This collection is a matrix of images that flow inexorably in an exhilarating manner into a form of poetic exultation.

In the Kingdom of Songs: A Trilogy of Poems : 1995-2000

Poetry, Performance, and Art is the first transcribed and translated collection and study of the udje poetry of Nigeria's Urhobo people. Udje is and integrative performance of song and dance by specially costumed performers at annual festivals. Udje dance songs were used to establish and maintain social norms. In addition to being an important compilation and study of African indigenous poetry, this book profiles three of the greatest udje poets and performers. Ojaide also explores the history of udje, including its development and the modern factors threatening its survival. Poetry, Performance, and Art will be of great interest not only to students and scholars of African oral traditions, African literature, and African studies, but also to poets in general and scholars of comparative anthropology, cultural studies, folklore, literature, performance arts, and sociology.

Poetry, Performance, and Art: Udje Dance Songs of the Urhobo People

Carolina Academic Press

In this book, Tanure Ojaide explains the uniqueness of modern African poetry, which he sees as a product of African orature and the Western literary tradition. The volume begins with "African Literature and Cultural Identity." The next chapter strives to define modern African poetic aesthetics. The book then examines both the oral and the rhythmic aspects of modern African poetry. Ojaide also takes on the history of the art form, contrasting newer and older poetry while acknowledging the influence of the old on the new. The book then goes on to highlight African women's poetry and compare African-American poetry with modern African poetry. This text will help readers achieve a deeper understanding of the complex and diverse world of modern African poetry.

Poetic Imagination in Black Africa: Essays on African Poetry

Literary

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.

I Want to Dance and Other Poems

African Heritage Press

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