Osundare to deliver 2022 NNMA winners lecture | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News ⬇️
The topic is, Poetry And The Human Voice. “It will be taking place within the context of the Annual Forum of NNOM Laureates,” Osundare told The Guardian. He was the 2014 recipient of NNMA, Nigeria’s highest recognition for distinguished academic and creative achievement.
Osundare attended the St. Luke’s Primary School and Amoye Secondary School, both in Ikere-Ekiti, before moving on to the Christ School, Ado-Ekiti, which has produced many of the country’s finest intellectuals. In announcing the award, the NNOM committee had noted: “The high water-mark of Niyi Osudare’s academic and teaching career, which began with his appointment in 1974, as Assistant Lecturer at the University of Ibadan, where he became Professor in 1989, and which continued with his appointment as Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, USA in 1997, was his appointment to a Distinguished Professorship at the University of New Orleans.
In 2005, he was selected Fellow of the Nigeria Academy of Letters , the country’s highest Academy for the Humanities. About his passion for teaching, he has this to say: “For me, the classroom is a vital space inhabited – no, lived – by students and teachers as partners, even collaborators, in a process of intellectual and social inquiry and exchange ….
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