Poet and the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Discipline: Poetry
Based In: Charlotte, NC
Year at Millay: 2004
Awards/Honors: Co-Winner, Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, The Lumina Foundation (2018); Award Winner, Humanities, Nigerian National Order of Merit Award, Federal Government of Nigeria (2016); Fellow, Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship, Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York, NY (2016); Award Winner, The Fonlon-Nichols Award, African Literature Association, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY (2016); Fulbright Scholar to Nigeria, Humanities, Fulbright US Scholar Program (2013–2014, 2002–2003); Prize Winner, The Penguin Prize for African Writing, Penguin Books, Parklands, South Africa (2010); Prize Winner, ANA Prize for Poetry, Association of Nigerian Authors, Abuja, Nigeria (2011, 2003, 1994, 1988); Award Winner, Africana Studies, First Citizens Bank Scholars Award, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC (2006); Grant Recipient, NEH Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC (1999/2000); Prize Winner, All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry, Association of Nigerian Authors, Abuja, Nigeria (1997, 1988); Prize Winner, Regional Prize: Africa, Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Commonwealth Institute/National Book League, London, United Kingdom (1987).
Poet and the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.