SCHOLARSHIP

Literary criticism

A Creative Writing Handbook for African Writers and Students (Malthouse Press, 2005).
           
Poetry, Performance, and Art: The Udje Dance Songs of the Urhobo People (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2003).

With Joseph Obi. Culture, Society, and Politics in Modern African Literature: Texts and Contexts (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002).

Poetic Imagination in Black Africa: Essays on African Poetry (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1996).

The Poetry of Wole Soyinka (Oxford/Lagos: Malthouse, 1994).

Forthcoming:

Ordering the African Imagination: Essays on African Culture and Literature (Lagos: Malthouse, 2007)

With Rose Aziza as editors. The Urhobo Language Today (Lagos: Malthouse, 2007).

Theorizing African Oral Poetic Performance and Aesthetics: Laughter and Intellectual Delight in Udje Dance Songs (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2008).