ALA Lecture Series: Lokangaka Losambe and Tanure Ojaide, September 28, 2024

Authors Speak:The New African Diasporic Literature with Lokangaka Losambe and Tanure Ojaide
Saturday September 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST; London, 3:00 PM; Lagos, 4:00 PM; Johannesburg, 5:00 PM; Nairobi, 6:00 PM

Lokangaka Losambe, a previous president of the ALA, Losambe is the Frederick M. and Fannie C.P. Corse Professor of English at the University of Vermont. His numerous publications include Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film: A Study in Globalectics; Borderline Movements in African Fiction; An introduction to the African Prose Narrative; Literature, the Visual Arts and Globalization in Africa and Its Diaspora (edited with Maureen Eke); and Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa (edited with Devi Sarinjeive).

Tanure Ojaide has published collections of poetry, novels, short stories, memoirs, and self-authored and co-authored scholarly books. His numerous prizes include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region, the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry, the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award, and the Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. In 2016 he won both the African Literature Association's Fonlon-Nichols Award and the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award. He has also received NEH, Fulbright, and Carnegie Awards. Ojaide is currently the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.