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INTERVIEW WITH TADE IPADEOLA (WINNER OF 2013 NIGERIA Reward FOR LITERATURE)
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Vacate TADE IPADEOLA
To start depiction “Celebrate a legend” capacity of Kreative Diadem. Colour very head guest bash no conquer person fondle the victor of Africa’s biggest writings prize, 2013 Nigeria Accolade for Facts ($100,000 benefactored by NLNG) and interpretation current Presidency of Next Nigeria, Tade Ipadeola.
The meeting sheds limpidity on his journey worry the replica of versification, the exclusivity of representation award-winning, Desert Testaments stomach his notification to picture emerging production of rural poets arm writers.
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“Pledged to the Republic of Imagination”— Uche Umez Interviews Tade Ipadeola
Tade Ipadeola is one of three authors in line to win the 100,000 dollar NLNG prize for Poetry. Enjoy this thoughtful and revealing conversation between the prize winning poet and Uche Umez who was shortlisted for the NLNG literature prize in 2007 and 2011. Both poets reflect on everything from the Arab Spring, poetic style/composition, Seamus Heaney, to Ipadeola’s shortlisted poetry collection, The Sahara Testaments.
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Uche Umez:The Sahara Testaments appears to be the largest volume of poetry by a Nigerian I have read in recent times. 184 pages. How long did it take you to write such an impressive volume? Was there a point when you thought it wasn’t worth completing and had to give up?
Tade Ipadeola: I’m sure there are larger volumes of poetry out there. The thing with poetry though, is that size means nothing if there is no substance to it. People study Elizabeth Browning’s incredibly long poem, Aurora Leigh, as well as the really slim Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti. The actual writing of The Sahara Testaments took about four years, although the material had been gathering in my mind since 2003. I set myse
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Literature Isn’t Always Popular Culture | Interview with Tade Ipadeola | By Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
Mr. Tádé Ìpàdéọlá is a barrister at law, writer, and poet. His latest poetry volume, The Sahara Testaments, won the 2013 Nigeria Prize for Literature sponsored by the NLNG. It was the last time, until last week Monday, that the poetry prize was awarded. In 2009, he won the Delphic Laurel in Poetry for his Yoruba poem “Songbird” at the Delphic Games in Jeju, South Korea.
It is his role as a judge in this year’s Nigeria Prize that fascinated me, especially because of the amount of controversy and positive vibes it generated. On the one hand, he is a former winner and contemporary writer whose presence on the judging panel brings an invaluable diversity. On the other hand, he is a writer and publisher with a number of his friends, colleagues, and mentees in the running. I wanted to know how much this weighed on him, along with other matters relating to this year’s award, won by Ikeogu Oke.
Enjoy.
Interviewer
What is it like to be in the other side of the table at the NLNG, from writer/prizewinner to judge?
Ìpàdéọlá
It felt a little onerous. The demands of the other side of the table as you put it are of a different kind and degree. As a co