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"The notion of a global village has demolished all cultural barriers with the emergence of a global literary culture where works of great writers can receive adequate global attention on the world's literary playground . . ."
My co-editor Sola Owonibi, of Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo State, Nigeria, and I, Beth Virtanen, at the University of Puerto Rico, have received confirmation of interest from our publisher Ramsden Publications of Ibadan, Ngeria, for our proposed book. We are inviting contributions to a book on collected essays on the work of the Nigerian-born poet Tayo Olafioye who has spent the last twenty years writing and working in the United States. This collection of essays commemorates his many successful years as poet, world citizen, social critic, learned scholar, and beloved teacher. We are soliciting manuscripts on any aspects of the work of Tayo Olafioye. This project commemorates his commitment to the improvement of society, one individual at a time, through his thoughtful interaction with colleagues and competitors, friends and friendly adversaries, students and aspiring literati.
Nigerian-born writer Tayo Pete Olafioye is a Professor of English at National University and Southwestern College in San Diego, California. He has won the Golden Poet Award in San Francisco and the National Library Award of America.
His books include the following:
- Forthcoming – Dining with the Gods: Stories from Africa. Lagos, Nigeria: Malthouse.
- Forthcoming - My Heart Swims in the Tears of Happiness. Lagos, Nigeria: Malthouse.
- 2004 – Tomorrow Left Us Yesterday. Poems. Lagos, Nigeria: Malthouse, 2004.
- 2002 - Selected Poems 1984-2002. Poetry. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press.
- 2002 - The Parliament of Idiots. Poetry. Kraft: Ibadan.
- 2000 - Ubangiji: The Conscience of Eternity. Poetry. Lagos/Oxford: Malthouse.
- 2000 - Tanure 0jaide: Critical Appraisal. Criticism. Lagos/Oxford: Malthouse.
- 2000 - A Carnival of Looters. Poetry. Kraft: Ibadan.
- 2000 - Grandma's Sun: Childhood Memoir. Fiction. Calabar: Univ. of Calabar Press.
- 2000 - A Stroke of Hope. Poetry. Lagos/Oxford: Malthouse.
- 1997 - Arrowheads to My Heart. Poetry. Lagos/Oxford: Malthouse Press Ltd.
- 1994 - Mother Earth Anthology of African Poems. Poetry. San Francisco: National Poetry Association of America, Uniting the World Press.
- 1989 - Critic as Terrorist. Criticism. San Diego: Advantage Books.
- 1989 - Be Careful, This is My Heart. Essays. San Diego: H & M Press.
- 1989 - Sorrows of a Town Crier. Poetry. San Diego: H & M Press.
- 1988 - Response to Creativity. Criticism. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Africanist Association.
- 1988 - Bush Girl Comes to Town. Fiction. Martinez: Pacific Coast Press.
- 1986 - The Excellence of Silence. Trans (Cyrillic Slav). Poetry. Skopjie: Macedonia Press.
- 1985 - The Saga of Sego. Fiction. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Africanist Association.
- 1984 - Politics in African Poetry. Criticism. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Afficanist Association.
Suggested topics include but certainly not limited to the following:
- His work as diaspora literature
- His work as Nigerian literature
- His place in African English Linguistics
- His transnational poetics
- His contribution to African and Diaspora Literature
- The meaning of “Town Crier” in contemporary society
- The importance of cultural critique and how his works accomplish this goal
Please submit complete manuscripts as attachments in Microsoft Word to the e-mail address given below by January 15, 2005.
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