Funso Aiyejina is a Nigerian poet

Poet

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, short story writer, playwright

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, and Dean of Humanities and Education, at the University of the West Indies

University of the West Indies

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His collection of short fiction, The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories, won the 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize

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, Best First Book (Africa).

He graduated from the University of Ife

Obafemi Awolowo University

Obafemi Awolowo University is a government-owned and -operated Nigerian university. The university is in the ancient city of Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria...

 in Nigeria, Acadia University

Acadia University

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 in Canada, and the University of the West Indies.
He taught at Obafemi Awolowo University

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, and since 1990 at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. In 1995-6, he was Fulbright Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lincoln University

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 in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Poetry

• A Letter to Lynda and Other Poems, Saros International Publishers, 1988 (Association of Nigerian Authors Prize, 1989); Lightning Source Inc, 2006, ISBN 9781856571067
• I, The Supreme and Other Poems (2004)

Short stories

• The Legend of the Rockhills and other stories, TSAR, 1999, ISBN 9780920661789

Editor

• A Place in the World: Essays and Tributes in Honour of Earl Lovelace
  Earl Lovelace
  For the peerage, see Earl of Lovelace.Earl Lovelace is a Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer....
  
  (2008)
• Earl Lovelace: Growing in the Dark (Selected Essays)(2003)
• Self-Portrait: Interviews with Ten West Indian Writers and Two Critics, University of the West Indies, 2003, ISBN 9789766201821

Reviews

• "Funso Aiyejina. I, The Supreme and Other Poems.", The Anthurian, Jennifer Rahim, Spring 2006

External links

• http://sta.uwi.edu/newspics/2009/Esu%20Elegbara3.pdf
• http://papabois.tripod.com/interface.html
• http://my.opera.com/PoetryOutLoud/albums/showpic.dml?album=156100&picture=2286878