Niyi Osundare is a poet, dramatist, critic, essayist, and media columnist. He was born in 1947 in Ekere-Ikiti, Ondo State, Nigeria. He taught English at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria from 1989 to 1993, when he became Head of the Department. During General Abacha’s dictatorship, Osundare, a champion of free speech, regularly contributed poems to [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 31, 2008
Press Release for African Writers Symposium
AFRICAN WRITERS’ SYMPOSIUM LAUNCHES YEAR OF LITERARY EVENTS AT TULANE: BILLY COLLINS AND JOAN DIDION TO VISIT CAMPUS IN SPRING
On Saturday, November 1st, Tulane University’s Department of English hosts its first African Writers’ Symposium, featuring poet and dramatist Niyi Osundare, short story writer Mohammed Naseehu Ali, fiction writer Sefi Atta, and novelist Dinaw Mengestu, who [...]
October 31, 2008
African Writers Symposium Schedule
10 am Coffee
10:15 am Welcome — Gaurav Desai
10:30 – 11:15 am Dinaw Mengestu — Reading and Discussion; Moderated by Paula Morris.
11:15 – Noon Sefi Atta — Reading and Discussion; Moderated by Elisabeth McMahon.
Noon – 1 pm Lunch
1 – 1:45 pm Mohamed Naseehu Ali — Reading and Discussion; Moderated by Thomas Beller.
1:45 – 2:30 pm Niyi [...]
