Welcome to Tanure Ojaide’s Blog! May 22, 2007
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Tanure Ojaide is one of the greatest living writers on the African continent. His artistic vocation is uncompromisingly reflective of African renaissance, socio-economic redemption of Africa, cultural rebirth of Africa and for the foremost part environmental regeneration of the African continent. Although Nigeria is his artistic provenance, but the energies of his art, transcend Nigerian frontiers. He is one writer that should be heard whenever he has something to say! I am at the moment considering his poetic repertoire for my doctoral research as it galvanises consciousness regarding the activities of the multinationals, the Nigerian govertnment and some renegades in the Niger delta. Their activities find resonance in environmental pollution, socio-economic quandary of Niger delta minorities and total marginalisation of these stock of Nigerians.
2. MBA, NONYELUM CHIBUZO- MARCH 22, 2008.
Tanure Ojaide is an explorer, an analyst, a rare gem and a writer with great difference and landmark. He is a unique storyteller in poetic trousers. His artistic prowess transcends all artistic barriers.He possesses diverse qualities that permeate human life. His sharp wit radiates through his works which x-rays African society and beyond socially, economically, politically and even religiously. Though Ojaide holds firmly on oil and environmental issues, he spreads his tentacles through his mastery of other societal issues burging humanity. A male writer, yet with female outlook, browsing through Africa and beyond, assuage the African woman of the wolfish nature of patriarchy. His concern for women’s predicament in Africa even those engendered by oil exploration, transcends all bounds. Ojaide’s handling of women depicts reality. He counters stereotype roles of women, divulging their hidden talents and intelligentsia. He breaks through the wall of patriarchy, exhuming sterotypical agents, casting them off through the realm of exhilarating exploits thus recreating a new African womanfrom the carcass patriarchy. A comformist of modernity, globalization and yet adorned with the dignity of the African woman through self-actualizing drives. This is the main thrust of my Ph.D Thesis.