Lectures & Monographs

  • 2021: Poetry and the Human Voice. Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA) Award Winner’s Lecture. Ibadan: Kraftbooks.
  • 2011: Homage to the Book. (The University Press Plc Annual Authors’ Forum Monograph Series). Ibadan: University Press
  • 2008: Style and Literary Communication in African Prose Fiction in English. Ibadan: Hope Publications Ltd. 
  • 2007: The Universe in the University: A Scholar-Poet’s Look from Inside Out: Valedictory Lecture. Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan.
  • 2007: The Writer as Writer: The African Literary Artisit and His Social Obligations. Ibadan: Hope Publications. (First published in 1986 in the Ife Monograph Series on Literature and Criticism, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife.)
  • 2002: Cautious Paths Through the Bramble: A Critical Classification of Style Theories and Concepts. Ibadan: Option Book and Information Services.
  • 1993: African Literature and the Crisis of Post-Structuralist Theorising. Ibadan: Option Book and Information Services. (Dialogue in African Philosophy Monograph Series); also in Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for a New Life, ed. K. Anyidoho, A. Busia, and A. Adams, Africa World Press, 1999, pp. 57-72; and published under the title “How Post-Colonial is African Literature?” in Matatu, 1995, pp. 203-216.
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