An Ecocritical Evaluation of Tanure Ojaide's Daydream of Ants and Other Poems / Joyce Onoromhenre Agofure. Cultural Signposts: Tanure Ojaide's Prose / Kanchana Ugbabe - Art and Medium: Tanure Ojaide's Poetry and Udje Aesthetics / Obari Gomba -- Thematising the Universality of Injustice and Oppression in Tanure Ojaide's Songs of Myself / Nesther Nachafiya Alu -- Poetry, Protest, and Environment: Tanure Ojaide as a Literary Militant / Sule E. Egya and Dawood Omolumen Egbefo -- Tanure Ojaide and the Udje Praxis: The Simplicity of 'Wounding Words' / Chike Okoye -- Stooping to Conquer: Conflict of Ideology and Morality in Tanure Ojaide's The Activist / Terhemba Shija -- Eco-Engagement and Existentialist Angst in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide / Elizabeth Nwakaego Enukora -- Action, Aims, and Purposes in Tanure Ojaide's The Activist and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée / Honoré Missihoun -- Environmental Degradation and Intellectual Activism: A Comparative Study of Tanure Ojaide's The Activist and Helon Habila's Oil on Water / Chioma Anastasia Onugha -- Reconceptualizing the Image of Environment: Ecofeminism and the Uncanny in Tanure Ojaide's The Tale of the Harmattan and Songs of Myself / Chinasa Abonyi -- Poetry and Politics: A Voyage into Tanure Ojaide's Labyrinth of the Delta / Vashti Suwa and Rejoice-James Songden -- A Contextual Appraisal of Tanure Ojaide's The Activist / Monica Udoette -- The Ecocritical Poems of Tanure Ojaide and Niyi Osundare / Kola Eke and Edafe Mukoro -- Eco-Crusade and the Materialist Vision in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide / Reuben Kehinde Akano -- The Vulture as Metaphor in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide and David Diop / James Tar Tsaaior -- An Ecocritical Evaluation of Tanure Ojaide's Daydream of Ants and Other Poems / Joyce Onoromhenre Agofure.
Summary:
With three highly successful international conferences and other salutary events in Tanure Ojaide's honour over the last one and a half decades, researchers and scholars of African literature continue to reveal refreshingly new interpretations and insights to his poetry, fictional narratives, memoirs and critical essays. This particular collection is the second volume of essays, most of them selected from papers that were presented at the Third Tanure Ojaide International Conference held at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria from 2 to 5 May 2018. The conference with the theme 'Tanure Ojaide: Life, Literature and the Environment' was an opportunity for intellectuals from within and outside the African continent to examine how the artist's life, his bioregional and geographical environments influenced his writings.
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