Tanure Ojaide

Broschiertes Buch

I Want to Dance and Other Poems

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

A renowned poet, Tanure Ojaide has won major national and international poetry awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region (1987), the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award (1988), twice the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988 and 1997), and thrice the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize (1988, 1994 and 2004. In 2016 Ojaide was awarded the the prestigious Fonlon-Nichols Award at the 42nd annual African Literature Association (ALA) conference in Atlanta.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: African Heritage Press
• Seitenzahl: 92
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 142g
• ISBN-13: 9780962886454
• ISBN-10: 0962886459
• Artikelnr.: 22206985