Background
Odia Ofeimun was born in Iruekpen-Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria.
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Education
He studied at Oxford University on a Commonwealth fellowship.
Career
His work has been widely anthologized and translated and he has read and performed his poetry internationally. That year his work appeared in the anthology Poems of Black Africa, edited by Wole Soyinka. Returning to Nigeria at the annulment of the 1993 election, he wrote columns for The Guardian On Sunday, the Nigerian Tribune, as well as contributing to many other newspapers.
He was chairman of the editorial board of the defunct daily, Master of Arts News, as well as The News and Tempo magazines.
Ofeimun was publicity secretary (1982-1984), general secretary (1984-1988) and president (1993-1997) of the Association of Nigerian Authors. Ofeimun is the author of more than 40 works.
His published collections of poetry include,, Dreams At Work and London Letter and Other Poems (2000). His poems for dance drama, Under African Skies (1990) and Siye Goli - A Feast of Return (1992), were commissioned and performed across the United Kingdom and Western Europe by Adzido Pan-African Dance Ensemble in the early 1990s, and his most recent poem for dance drama,, has been staged through major Nigerian cities to wide acclaim.
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Ofeimun also worked as an administrative officer in the Federal Public Service Commission, as a teacher, as private (political) secretary to Chief Obafemi Awolowo, leader of the Unity Party of Nigeria, and as a member of the editorial board of The Guardian Newspapers in Lagos. He was also designated advisor to Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Nigeria Centre and is a founding member of the Pan African Writers" Association.
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