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	<title>Tanure Ojaide Blog</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A TRIBUTE: FOR MY FRIEND, JOSEPH EWUBARE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanure Ojaide</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	When on the night of June 29, at St. Nicholas, where he had been hospitalized, Joe wished me safe journey for my travel the following day, I had thought of our next meeting in Nigeria or in the United States, not expecting to hear the devastating news the day after I arrived. Shocked and confounded, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Examining Canonization in Modern African Literature</title>
		<link>http://www.tanureojaide.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/21/examining-canonization-in-modern-african-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanure Ojaide</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With four literary Nobel laureates the past two decades or so (Wole Soyinka, Idris Mahfouz, Nadine Godimer, and J.M. Coetzee), modern African literature has reached such a world standard of respectability that deserves internal re-examination. Once a writer wins the Nobel Prize, his/her literature and the culture assume a significance that would normally not be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Examining Canonization in Modern African Literature - Continued</title>
		<link>http://www.tanureojaide.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/21/examining-canonization-in-modern-african-literature-continued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanure Ojaide</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The fauna and flora of the continent become embodiments of the thoughts of the characters expressed in literature. Wole Soyinka’s Brother Jero plays are based on the motif of the trickster tortoise, the Yoruba ajakpa. Kofi Awoonor uses the weaverbird to represent the coming of colonialists to Africa in a very symbolic manner. The vulture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Examining Canonization in Modern African Literature - Works Cited and References</title>
		<link>http://www.tanureojaide.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/21/examining-canonization-in-modern-african-literature-works-cited-and-references/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanure Ojaide</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Abani, Chris. GraceLand. New York: Farrar, Straus, &#38; Giraux, 2003.
Abrahams, Peter. Tell Freedom. London: Heinemann, 1970.
Achebe, Chinua. Morning Yet on Creation Day: Essays. New York: Anchor, 1975.
&#8212;. Anthills of the Savannah. Oxford: Heinemann, 1987.
&#8212;. A Man of the People. London: Heinemann, 1966.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Purple Hibiscus. New York: Anchor, 2004.
&#8212;. Half of a Yellow Sun. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd Ojaide International Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.tanureojaide.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/26/2nd-ojaide-international-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanure Ojaide</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Call for Papers
2nd Ojaide International Conference (July 9-13, 2008)
 Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria
Tanure Ojaide: Oil and Literature in the Niger Delta
In 2005, the first international Conference on the literature of the poet-scholar, Tanure Ojaide, was held at the Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. The theme was “Telling the Niger Delta and Beyond.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Tanure Ojaide&#8217;s Blog!</title>
		<link>http://www.tanureojaide.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/22/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 05:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanure Ojaide</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for visiting Tanure Ojaide&#8217;s Blog and learning about socio-economic and political issues facing Africa.  Dr. tanure Ojaide, is one of Africa&#8217;s most prolific poet and writer in his generation.  Please feel free to post your comments on our blog, and we truly appreciate it!
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