Tanure Ojaide
EMAIL: tojaide@gmail.com
PHONE: 17044886155
ADDRESS: 7629 Dayberry Lane, Charlotte, NC 28227, USA
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Table tennis
MEMBERSHIP STATUS: Fellow
YEAR OF INDUCTION/ADMISSION:2018
POST HELD: Overseas Fellow
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEE: Nil
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION: The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
SPECIALTIES: Creative Writing, Poetry, African Literatures, Africana Literatures and Folklores
APPOINTMENTS: Nil
PARTICIPATION IN GRANTS AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS/PROJECTS: Oral Literature/Udje of the Urhobo People
COMMUNITY SERVICE: Mentoring young writers
Biography
The Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, winner of the Nigerian National Order of Merit and the Folon Nichols Prize for Literature. I have won many poetry awards.
