Niyi Osundare

Niyi Osundare is

• Kenyan

• Nigerian

• South African

• Venezuelan

Osundare has faced this natural calamity

• earthquake in Hawaii

• Tsunami in Japan

• Hurricane Katrina

• Floods in Nigeria

His poetry explores this culture

• Masai

• Tanzanian

• Yoruba

• Igbo

Yoruba people constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa

• True

• False

The Yoruba people are

• an East-African tribe who mainly inhabit Kenya and Ethiopia

• a South-African tribe settled near Cape Town

• a West-African tribe inhabiting large parts of Nigeria, Benin and Togo

His poetry often deals with

• Gender issues

• Political activism

• Decolonization

• Corporate corruption

• Black internationalism

A central issue his poetry explores is the environment.

• True

• False

Black internationalism can best be defined as...

• A movement involving hip hop artists from across the globe fighting for black rights

• An anti-slavery movement in USA and Africa

• a global political, intellectual, and artistic movement of African descended people engaged in a collective struggle to overthrow global white supremacy in its many forms

Decolonisation is

• the process whereby African nations seek to establish a united kingdom that is designed to fight against the West and its powerful institutions

• the movement that aims at establishment of colonial rule in less powerful nations

• the movement towards freedom from colonial rule including the economic, cultural and psychological aspects of the colonial experience

One of the terms used to describe Osundare's body of work is "eco-criticism. This means

• the interdisciplinary study of the connections between literature and the environment. It draws on contributions from natural scientists, writers, literary critics, anthropologists and historians in examining the differences between nature and its cultural construction.

• the process by which literature is used as a medium by which economic pursuits are criticised for the damage they do to inter-personal relationships, breakdown of the family system and a general materialistic attitude in society.