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Dike Chukwumerije is a Nigerian spoken word and performance poetry artist and author. He has eight published books, including the novel Urichindere, which won the 2013 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Prose Fiction [1] [2] and a poetry theatre production made in Nigeria.
Nduka worked in Nigeria as a lecturer in Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education (later known as Alvan Ikoku University of Education), [5] [6] [7] Owerri.In addition, he has worked as a freelance writer and columnist for Praxis Magazine, The Nigerian Telegraph, and for African Hadithi, a Pan-African online media platform where his essays and poetry have been published.
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Casualties: Poems 1966–68 (USA: Africana Publishing Corporation, 1970), which illustrate the horrendous events of the Nigeria-Biafra war; A Decade of Tongues (Longmans, Drumbeat series, 1981), a collection of 74 poems, all of which apart from "Epilogue to Casualties" (dedicated to Michael Echeruo) were previously published in earlier volumes;
He got his surname 'Sipikin' from when he was a clerk for NEPU, owing to his habit of mispronouncing "This is Mudi speaking" instead answering "This is Mudi sipikin". While the majority of his works were written in Hausa , under the supervision of Richard Ali , efforts have been undertaken by the Poetry Translation Centre to preserve and ...
Niyi Osundare is a Nigerian poet, dramatist, linguist, and literary critic. Born on 12 March 1947, in Ikere-Ekiti, [1] Nigeria, his poetry is influenced by the oral poetry of his Yoruba culture, which he hybridizes with other poetic traditions of the world, including African-American, Latin American, Asian, and European.
Edo literature includes both written and oral works in the Edo language by the Edo people of Nigeria.It has its origins in precolonial times and has evolved over time. The literature is a reflection of Edo culture and it includes various periods, genres, and authors.
Rattle nominated his poems "How My Mother Spends Her Nights" and "What My Children Remember" for the Pushcart Prize in 2016 and 2019, respectively. [29] He was shortlisted for Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2017. [30] [31] He was a finalist for Sillerman First Book for African Poets in 2018. [32]