Remi Raji
is the pen name of Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, Nigerian author, cultural activist and scholar. His first collection of poems, A Harvest of Laughters (1997), has won national and international recognition. A Salzburg Fellow and visiting professor and writer to a number of institutions, including Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, the Universities of California at Riverside and Irvine, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Cambridge University, UK. In 2005 he served as the Guest Writer to the City of Stockholm, Sweden. His other volumes of poetry include Webs of Remembrance (2001, rpt 2003), Shuttlesongs America: A Poetic Guided Tour (2003), and Lovesong for my wasteland (2005). Raji’s works have been translated into French, German, Catalan, Swedish and Ukranian. He is currently visiting at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany as a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship.
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