Niyi Osundare
Nigerian poet whose accessible, performance-oriented verse celebrates Yoruba culture and protests social injustice. He won the Fonlon-Nichols Prize and is one of Nigeria's foremost poets.
Works
- Songs of the MarketplacePoetry collection celebrating African marketplace culture and collective voice
- Village VoicesPoetry exploring indigenous African voices and rural traditions
- The Eye of the EarthEcological poetry examining humanity's relationship to the natural world
- Waiting Laughters
- Thread in the Loom