Tanure ojaide biography of barack obama
Tanure ojaide biography of barack obama president
Biography of barack obama president.
Tanure Ojaide
Ojaide is currently the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
He won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region (1987), the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award (1988), the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988 and 1997), and the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize (1988, 1994 and 2004).
His poems have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Spanish and French.
Tanure ojaide biography of barack obama
His many poetry collections include In The House of Words [Malthouse, 2006]
Doors of the Forest
“The doors of the forest are closed” (Pablo Neruda)
The doors of the forest are closed.
Forever
closed by poachers, government-salaried guards,
of the green dominion that kissed the sky’s face
amidst ululation of leaves topped by a majestic crown.
On the dome and over the garland of opulent leaves,
the choir out-sang symphonies, vocals of every calibe