Abstract
Charlotte, North Carolina Nigerian-born author Tanure Ojaide currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has published a dozen collections of poems; his latest include the Kingdom of Songs (2001) and I Want to Dance and Other Poems (2003). He has won, among other awards, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa region (1987), the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988, 1994), and the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Award (1988, 1997). In the Quiet will appear in the verse collection the House of Words, due to be published by Malthouse Press, Lagos, in 2004.
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