MOLARA OGUNDIPE Ph.D.
|
|
|
Professor of English, Africana, Cultural and Gender Studies Writer Poet Consultant Scholar
|
Also known and published as Molara
Ogundipe -Leslie
Professor of English and Africana Studies
Director, The Writing Centre
Ashesi University College
No.12,2nd Norla Street North Labone
PMB CT3 Cantonments
Accra,Ghana
TEL: +233.21.760230,761329
FAX: +233.21.784768
CELL: +233.24.985 8256
Previously Distinguished Leverhulme Professor
School of English and Postcolonial Studies, Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History, and the Centre for African Studies
University of Leeds, LS5 9JT, UK
e-mail:
[email protected] preferred
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS (A Select List)
BOOKS
1.
Davies, Carole Boyce and Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara, eds.
2.
Moving
Beyond Boundaries: Black Women’s Diasporas. 2 vols.
vol. 1. The
International Dimensions of Black Women’s Writing.
vol. 2. Black
Women’s Diasporas.
2. Ogundipe-Leslie,
Molara.
Recreating Ourselves : African Women and Critical
Transformations
3. et.
al. The WIN DOCUMENT : The Conditions of
Women in
4. Ogundipe - Leslie,
Molara. Sew
The Old Days and Other Poems.
ANTHOLOGIES (INCLUDING OGUNDIPE’S POEMS)
1. Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa. Ed. Marie Umeh.
2. Borderlines: Contemporary Poems
in English.
Ed. J. A. Wainright.
3. New Voices in West African Poetry. Ed. Tijan
Sallah.
4. Literature Around
the Globe.
Ed. Fink & Allan.
5. The Heinemann Book of African
Women’s Poetry.
Ed. Chipasula and Chipasula.
6. Voices: Canadian Voices of African Descent. Ed. Ayanna Black. Harper Collins, 1992.
7. Daughters of
8. The Heinemann Book of African Poets in English. Ed. Adewale Maja-Pearse. 1990.
9. Voices from 20th Century
10. The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. Ed. Gerald Moore, 1985.
11. African Writing Today. Ed. Peter Nazareth.
Spec. double issue of Pacific Moana Quarterly,
12. African Notes.
CITATIONS OF MOLARA
OGUNDIPE AND HER WORK
The
University, Guelph, Ontario,
Women’s Review of Books xi . 6 (1994).
The
UNESCO General History of
Modern African Literature. 1993.
Preface to African
Women’s Writing. Ed.
Charlotte Bruner. Professor Emerita
of
The
The Feminist
Companion to World Literature in English: Women
Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Eds. Blain, Grundy and Clements.
DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
Part-time Radio Work. 1958-63.
Involvement with women’s organizations at the grassroots, national, pan-African and international levels.
Involvement with research on women and women’s studies since 1965.
Founder and Moderator
of a Nigerian national television network programme:
“
Work with national and international peace and justice movements.
Participation
in the 1985 U.N. Decade Conference on Women, in
Organized
at the
Collaborated
with international peace movements through a peace dialogue and conference in
Collaborator in the Congress to found the International Women for a
Meaningful
Speaker on many state and national television network talk shows on politics, culture and education.
Intensive radio and
television work on women’s rights and consciousness in
Production
with a panel of experts of a handbook on political education in
Co-Planned and tried to
implement a national network of agricultural co-operatives in
Co-Planned
a system of community theaters for mobilization at the grass roots level. Implemented pilot projects in
three remote villages in
Lectures, speeches and meetings with groups and traditional representatives of communities and villages to identify priorities and modalities for modernization from their own points of view. 1987 - 89.
Regular
village fora meetings to discuss local needs and
complaints.
Meetings organized from the central office of mobilization at the capital,
Participated
in a UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) TOT
(Training of Trainers) workshop in rural
Organized and taught in
TOT (Training the Trainers) Workshop for social mobilization officers to go
into local government areas (counties and boroughs) to teach civil and social
rights at the grass roots level. Minna,
Organized and taught at
workshops on a new social and political order with representatives of all
Nigerian media, electronic and print. Bauchi,
National Political
Awareness Tour of the 22 states of
Meetings with the executives of media organizations, severally, on national change.
DEVELOPMENT: PAPERS, PUBLIC LECTURES AND ESSAYS: A Partial List
Lectures
“Leadership
and Women.” Women’s Education Unit Workshop of the Ministry of
Education for Kuje village women. Kuje village,
“Youth
and Issues of Women’s Emancipation.” National Youth
Conference of all Nigerian Students’ Organizations. Okigwi,
“The Image of
Women in the Nigerian Media: Prospects and Strategies for Change.” Annual National Convention of the Nigerian Association of Media
Women. Owerri,
“Labour and the Mobilization of Nigerian Women.” Presented to
the Nigerian Labour Congress.
“Foreign
News Reporting and
“Beyond
the Women’s Decade.” Keynote address to the Annual National Convention
of the Nigerian Association of University
Women.
“The
Role of the Media in a New Nigerian Political Order.” Workshop on
Political Education and all Nigerian Print Media.
“Mobilizing Women
for Development,”
“Women
and the Family.” Keynote Address to the WIN Women in
“African
Women and the South African Struggle.” Keynote
Address to WIN (Women in
“Writing
for Women who Care About Children.” Special Guest
Lecture. Foundation of African Arts Colloquium.
Weekly essays in The Guardian on issues of culture, literature , politics, and women. 1986-87.
“Culture
as an Instrument of Diplomacy.” National
Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies. KURU,