Remi Raji 
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Salutation الانجليزية

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Lovesong for my Wasteland, Sequence VII - Bound to remember الانجليزية

Lovesong for my Wasteland, Sequence XVII الانجليزية

Lovesong for my Wasteland, Sequence XXX الانجليزية

Lovesong for my Wasteland, Sequence XLI الانجليزية

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Dreamtalk الانجليزية

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I will find you الانجليزية

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Forgetting... الانجليزية

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Questions and Prayers الانجليزية

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Gather my blood, rivers of song الانجليزية

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Remi Raji 
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* 23.11.1961, Ibadan, نيجيريا
يعيش في: Ibadan, نيجيريا

Remi Raji is the pen name of Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, a Nigerian poet, scholar, literary organiser and cultural activist. Raji’s first collection of poems – A Harvest of Laughters (1997) – has won national and international recognition. A Salzburg Fellow and visiting professor and writer to a number of institutions including Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Universities of California at Riverside and Irvine (all U.S.A.), University of Cape Town (South Africa), and Cambridge University (UK), Raji’s scholarly essays have appeared in journals including Research in African Literatures and African Literature Today. Raji has presented his poems in Africa, Europe and America. In 2005, he served as the Guest Writer to the City of Stockholm (Sweden). Raji’s works have been translated into French, German, Catalan, Swedish, Ukrainian and Latvian. He has been an “Alexander von Humboldt”-Scholar to the Humboldt University to Berlin (Germany).

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Raji currently teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the Department of English of the University of Ibadan (Nigeria).

المنشورات
  • A harvest of laughters

    Ibadan: Kraftbooks, 1997

  • Webs of Remembrance

    Ibadan: Kraftbooks, 2001

  • Shuttlesongs America: A Poetic Guided Tour

    Ibadan: Book Craft, 2003

  • Lovesong for my Wasteland

    Ibadan: Book Craft, 2005

  • Gather my blood rivers of song

    Ibadan: Diktaris, 2009

جوائز
  • 1997 Association of West African Writers’ Award for Best First Published Book of the Year

  • 1997 Association of Nigerian Authors - Cadbury Poetry Prize

  • 2003 Special Creative Writing Prize (awarded by the African Information Society Initiative, UNECA)

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