Get Guardian on GoogleBookcraft Africa has announced the acquisition of Professor Niyi Osundare’s seminal book of essays, Truth is Trouble: New and Selected Essays, Speeches, Tributes, Farewells, and Five Pivotal Interviews.
The book is an intellectually stimulating and powerful collection of Osundare’s writings, spanning decades of critical engagement with significant aspects of our world, including literature, politics, culture, and identity.
It explores the crucial role of the writer in a world grappling with historical amnesia and pressing ethical considerations. Osundare’s enduring voice is that of a dedicated intellectual — sharp, poetic, challenging — yet full of empathy.
Osundare has authored numerous books of poetry, plays, essays, scholarly monographs, articles, and reviews on literature, culture, language, and socio-political issues in Africa and the world at large. He was the 1998 recipient of the African Literature Association’s Fonlon/Nichols Award for excellence in literary creativity and significant contributions to Human Rights in Africa.
He is noted for the mutual relationship between his literary works and incisive public interventions. He is widely regarded as a writer without borders, whose works have been translated into many languages worldwide. A Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), he is currently an emeritus distinguished professor of English at the University of New Orleans, USA, and a visiting professor at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
