With three highly successful international conferences and other
salutary events in Tanure Ojaide's honour over the last one and a half
decades, researchers and scholars of African literature continue to
reveal refreshingly new interpretations and insights to his poetry,
fictional narratives, memoirs and critical essays. This particular
collection is the second volume of essays, most of them selected from
papers that were presented at the Third Tanure Ojaide International
Conference held at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State,
Nigeria from 2 to 5 May 2018. The conference with the theme 'Tanure
Ojaide: Life, Literature and the Environment' was an opportunity for
intellectuals from within and outside the African continent to examine
how the artist's life, his bioregional and geographical environments
influenced his writings.
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega is an Associate Professor of African
Literature who lectures at Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria.