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Features, Lit Scene, News July 26, 2017

Wole Soyinka’s Poem for the Late Literary Scholar Abiola Irele

Professor Abiola Irele passed on earlier this month at the age of 81. Born in 1936, the late critic was one of the finest and most respected African literary scholars. Graduating from the University of Ibadan in 1960, he got a PhD in French from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. He eventually joined Harvard as […]

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