Niyi Osundare

Niyi Osundare was born on 12 March 1947 in Ikere-Ekiti, into a Yoruba farming family; his father sang at village festivals. Educated at Amoye Grammar School and Christ's School, then at Ibadan, Leeds and in Canada, he is a poet, playwright, linguist and critic. He has received three times the poetry prize of his country's authors' association, as well as the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Noma Award, an African poetry prize and his country's national order of merit.

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• PoetrySongs of the MarketplaceNiyi Osundare · 1983Literature