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10/28/02

AFRICAN POET TO DELIVER LECTURE AT SLU

CANTON - Poet Niyi Osundare will deliver the annual C.L.R. 
James Lecture in African Studies at St. Lawrence University, 
on "Ancestral Intimations in African and Caribbean Literature." 
The event will be on Monday, November 11, at 8 p.m. in the 
auditorium of Hepburn Hall, Room 218. Osundare will also give 
a reading of his poetry on November 11, at 4:30 p.m. in the 
Formal Lounge of the E.J. Noble University Center. Both events 
are open to the public, free of charge.
	Osundare has written a dozen books of poetry, and his 
work has appeared widely in periodicals and anthologies. He has 
also written four plays, a book of essays on African literature 
and culture, and numerous works of literary and film criticism. 
He is a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and his recent 
awards include the Fonlon/Nichols Prize, the most prestigious 
award of the African Literature Association; the Noma Award, 
Africa's most prominent book award; and the Cadbury/ANA Poetry 
Prize, Nigeria's highest award for poetry. In addition to his 
scholarly work, Osundare is a columnist for Newswatch, one of 
the leading newsmagazines in Nigeria. He has also done a lot to 
popularize poetry by contributing poetry regularly to The 
Tribune, a daily newspaper.
	Osundare is currently a member of the faculty of the 
University of New Orleans, and previously taught at the University 
of Ibadan, Nigeria, as well as other universities in Europe 
and North America. He was a Fulbright scholar-in-residence 
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has received 
honorary doctoral degrees from Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail 
in France and Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire.

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