AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2006:
Book Shortlisted for the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature (Lovesong for my Wasteland)
2006-07
Georg Forster Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
2005-06
Visiting Scholar, Centre of African Studies & Wolfson College, Cambridge University, UK.
2004-05:
Guest Writer to the City of Stockholm, Sweden. 2002-04: College & University Affiliation Program (CUAP) Grant, Southern Illinois University, USA-University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
2003:
Special Creative Writing Prize awarded by the African Information Society Initiative, UNECA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; (for “A Poem for Practical Dreamers, or Dreams at Work”).
2002:
Visiting Harry Oppenheimer African Scholar, Centre for African Studies University of Cape Town, South Africa.
2001:
Scholar-in-Residence, Department of English, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, US.
2001:
West African Research Center Travel Grant, Dakar, Senegal; Fellow, Institute of Gender Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
2000:
Recipient, The Ford Foundation (West Africa) Research Grant in Culture, Media & Literature.
1999:
Summer Institute for International Professors and Scholars, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, US.
1997:
Association of West African Writers’ Award for Best First Published Book of the Year (for A Harvest of Laughters).
1997: Association of Nigerian Authors-Cadbury Poetry Prize (for A Harvest of Laughters).
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