Background
Ogunyemi, Yemi Diploman was born on March 21, 1950 in Lagos, Nigeria. Came to the United States. Son of Reuben Ojagbuwa and Matilda A. (Ikuemonisan) Ogunyemi.
Ogunyemi, Yemi Diploman was born on March 21, 1950 in Lagos, Nigeria. Came to the United States. Son of Reuben Ojagbuwa and Matilda A. (Ikuemonisan) Ogunyemi.
Master of Arts, Webster University, 1982. Doctor of Philosophy, Clayton University, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy, Lajos Kosuth University, Hungary, 1993.
Doctor of Letters, Avadh University, Faizabad, India, 1994.
Associate research fellow Harvard University, Cambridge, 1994-1995. Director Institute of Creative Writing, Vienna, 1983-1993, Development News, Vienna, since 1983, Diaspora Press of America, since 1995, Institute of Yoruba/African Nar. Philosophies, since 2000.
Professor humanities Bircham Internat.l University, 2007, Foundation University, 2010. Director Writers Without Borders, since 2000. Consultant Lobbyists for Private University Nigeria, since 1990.
Director Movement for the Moderinization of Yoruba Relations, since 1998, Proponent, International University Diaspora.
Member Yoruba Community of Massachusetts, Boston, 1995, The New Poetry Club, Boston, 1995, Boston Pan African Forum, Boston, 1995. Fellow The Boston Writers Room.
Married Maria Magdelena Szuts, March 11, 1955. Children: Godwin Akintunde, Michael Olukayode, Daniel Adebowale, Julia Bosede;1 child Katharina Omoyemi.