The Tale of the Harmattan - Couverture souple

Ojaide, Tanure

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9789183119 ISBN 13 : 9789789183111

Editeur : Kraft Books, 2015

Synopsis

In this collection, Nigerian poet Tanure Ojaide adopts the persona of a homeboy griot returning from travels to be confronted by the devastation wrought by oil greed, politics, and technology upon his beloved Niger Delta; its environment, civilisation and people. It becomes a tragedy of corruption, suffering and dispossession in sharp contrast to the eco-sensitive animism of his youth. Angry, elegiac and lyrical, this collection allows the reader insight far beyond the reach of journalism or prose.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kraft Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9789183119
• ISBN 13: 9789789183111
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 70
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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