← Niyi OsundareWaiting Laughtersby Niyi OsundareFind on Amazon↗About the authorNiyi OsundareNigerian 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.More by Niyi OsundareSongs 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→Thread in the Loom→