NIYI OSUNDARE TO READ AT ARTMOSPHERE, IBADAN and there are gifts for early birds!


ARTMOSPHERE for June comes up by 3pm on Saturday, June 20, 2015 at the NuStreams Conference Centre, KM 110, Iyagunku Road, off Alalubosa GRA, Ibadan, Nigeria and features Professor Niyi Osundare, amazing poet and beautiful scholar.

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Hey, you know about Niyi Osundare? He is one of Nigeria’s finest poets and someone whom we have sipped many creative thoughts from. Well, the news is he is going to be reading at ARTMOSPHERE in Ibadan by 3pm on Saturday, June 20, 2015. The venue is at the NuStreams Conference Centre, KM 110, Iyagunku Road, off Alalubosa GRA, Ibadan, Nigeria.

But let me tell you a bit more about Professor Osundare…

Poet, dramatist, critic, essayist, and media columnist, Niyi Osundare is a Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, USA. He has authored over ten volumes of poetry, two books of selected poems, four plays, a book of essays, and numerous articles on literature, language, culture, and society. His works of published poetry includeSongs of the Marketplace (1983), Village Voices (1984), A Nib in the Pond (1986), The Eye of the Earth (1986),which won…

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YORUBA NATION: PLAY IT RIGHT THIS TIME By Prof Banji Akintoye | H/T DAWN Commission


At this historic moment, then, we Yoruba people must send one united message to our political and society leaders and traditional rulers – namely, that they should exercise discipline and restraint, and give our men a fair chance to deliver their best in the new government and to bring some good back home to the Yoruba Southwest.

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