Education

• Ph.D. English, University of Denver, 1974
• M.A. English, University of San Diego, 1971
• B.A. Honors English, University of Lagos, 1968

Employment

• Southwestern College, San Diego - Present
• California State University, San Marcos
• San Diego State University, San Diego
• University of Ilorin

Memberships

• International P.E.N.
• Modern Language Association
• African Literature Association
• African Studies Association
• Pacific Coast Africanists Association
• Association of West African Authors

Books

• 2002 - Selected Poems 1984-2002. Poetry. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press.
• 2002 - The Parliament of Idiots. Poetry. Kraft: Ibadan.
• 2000 - Ubangiji: The Conscience of Eternity. Poetry. Lagos/Oxford: Malthouse.
• 2000 - Tanure 0jaide: Critical Appraisal. Criticism. Lagos/Oxford: Malthouse.
• 2000 - A Carnival of Looters. Poetry. Kraft: Ibadan.
• 2000 - Grandma's Sun: Childhood Memoir. Fiction. Calabar: Univ. of Calabar Press.
• 2000 - A Stroke of Hope. Poetry. Lagos/Oxford: Malthouse.
• 1997 - Arrowheads to My Heart. Poetry. Lagos/Oxford: Malthouse Press Ltd.
• 1994 - Mother Earth Anthology of African Poems. Poetry. San Francisco: National Poetry Association of America, Uniting the World Press.
• 1989 - Critic as Terrorist. Criticism. San Diego: Advantage Books.
• 1989 - Be Careful, This is My Heart. Essays. San Diego: H & M Press.
• 1989 - Sorrows of a Town Crier. Poetry. San Diego: H & M Press.
• 1988 - Response to Creativity. Criticism. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Africanist Association.
• 1988 - Bush Girl Comes to Town. Fiction. Martinez: Pacific Coast Press.
• 1986 - The Excellence of Silence. Trans (Cyrillic Slav). Poetry. Skopjie: Macedonia Press.
• 1985 - The Saga of Sego. Fiction. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Africanist Association.
• 1984 - Politics in African Poetry. Criticism. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Afficanist Association.

Some Published Articles

• 1998 - The Ken Saro Wiwa Echo. In Rasheed Na'Allah (ed.), Ogoni Agonies. African World Press.
• 1997 - The Semiotics of Yoruba Proverbs. In Nike Lawal (ed.), Yoruba Life and Culture. OUP.
• 1995 - Religion in Yoruba Life. African Culture for Americans. University of St. Clouds.
• 1994 - Anthology of African Poems. Mother Earth Journal, 2(5). San Francisco: Uniting World Press, National Poetry Association of America.
• 1994 - Exile: The Castration of the Soul. Mother Earth Journal, 2(4). San Francisco: Uniting World Press, National Poetry Association of America.
• 1991 (1991, February 9) - Sembene Ousmane's African Underlings Revisited, Part 1. The Guardian Literary Series. Lagos.
• 1991 (1991, February 16) - Sembene Ousmane's African Underlings Revisited, Part 1. The Guardian Literary Series. Lagos.
• 1990 - Childhood Classic: A Comparative Reading of Ake and Blackboy. The Guardian Literary Series. Lagos.
• 1989 (Spring 1989) - Scatogical Revenge: The Nemesis of Xala. Pacific Review. San Diego University
• 1985 (1983 - 1984) - Essentials of Oral Poetry. Kuka. 62-75, 321-454 Zaria: Ahmadu Bell UP.
• 1985 - Ideological Gerrymandering in African Literature. Journal of African Studies, 12(2), 7-76. Los Angeles: UCLA UP.
• 1983 - Alienation & Aesthetics in Neo-Colonial African Poetry. Kuka, 2(10). Zaria: Ahurnadu Bello UP.
• 1976 (1976, Juillet - Septembre) - The Poet as Elegist, The Poet as Prophet in the Mirror of the Modern Poetry of English Speaking Africa. Revue de Literature Compare. 1(3), 251-255.
• 1975 - Public Voices of Western African Poetry. Ufahamu, 1, 74-95.
• 1974 Southern African thought in Poetry. Ba Shiru, 6,(1). Wisconsin: UP.

Works in Progress

• "Es'kia Mphahhele: The Doyen of African Literature": in The Major African Writers of the 20th Century. Lynn Carter Publisher.
• The Fish Rots From the Head. Poetry