Author biographies

Femi Ojo-Ade

Formerly Professor and Head of Department of Foreign Languages at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, FEMI OJO-ADE is currently Professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland, USA, where he has been pioneer Coordinator of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program. An internationally recognized scholar of Black Literatures and Cultures, Ojo-Ade is also an award-winning creative writer.

In addition to many articles and essays, he has published eighteen books of criticism, fiction, and poetry. The long list includes:

• A. critical texts: ON BLACK CULTURE; BEING BLACK, BEING HUMAN; DEATH OF A MYTH: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON NIGERIA; KEN SARO-WIWA, A BIO-CRITICAL STUDY; LEON-GONTRAN DAMAS.
• B. fiction: HOME, SWEET, SWEET HOME (translated into Brazilian Portuguese as MAMA AFRICA); DEAD END; BLACK GODS; ONE LITTLE GIRL'S DREAMS.
• C. poetry: EXILE AT HOME.
• D. Ojo-Ade writes in several languages, including his native Yoruba, Englich, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. His first novel in French, LES PARADIS TERRESTRES, was recently co-published by African Heritage Press and Amoge Press.

More information on this writer may be obtaine at: http://www.smcm.edu

His creative works include:

• Dead End (2001)
• The Almond Tree (2000)
• Exile At Home (1998) (Honorable mention 1999 Association of Nigerian Authors/Cadbury prize for Poetry)
• Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Bio-Critical Study (1999)
• Black Gods (2002)
• One Little Girl’s Dream (wins Association of Nigerian Authors’ Prize for children’s Literature in 1999)
• Home Sweet Sweet Home (Translated into Portuguese)
• Death of a Myth: Critical Essays on Nigeria, Les Paradis Terrestres ( French 2003)

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