Tanure ojaide biography of mahatma

Nigerian poet and academic (born )

Tanure Ojaide (born ) is a Nigerian poet and academic.^[1] As a writer, he is noted for his unique stylistic vision and for his intense criticism of imperialism, religion, and other issues.

He is regarded as a socio-political and an ecocentric poet. He won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa with his collection Songs of Myself: A Quartet ().^[2]

Biography

Tanure Ojaide was born to Urhobo parents from Okpara Inland in Agbon Kingdom of Delta State.

He credits his grandmother with having inspired his writing.^[3] He attended secondary school at Obinomba and Federal Government College, Warri, before proceeding to the University of Ibadan for his degree program in English.

He attended Syracuse University, where he earned an M.A. in Creative Writing and a PhD in English. He later taught at the University of Maiduguri, before being appointed as Professor at the University of North Carolina a