{"id":12709,"date":"2019-03-16T08:39:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T12:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=12709"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:15","slug":"nduka-otiono-is-co-editor-of-a-proposed-poetry-collection-in-honour-of-professor-pius-adesanmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2019\/nduka-otiono-is-co-editor-of-a-proposed-poetry-collection-in-honour-of-professor-pius-adesanmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nduka Otiono is co-editor of a proposed poetry collection in honour of Professor Pius Adesanmi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Nduka Otiono is co-editor of a proposed poetry collection in honour of Professor Pius Adesanmi\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IAS\u2019s Dr. Nduka Otiono is a co-editor of a special call for submissions for poetry in honour of our late Director, Professor Pius Adesanmi:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/research\/cfp-wreaths-for-a-wayfarer-a-poetry-anthology-in-honour-of-pius-adesanmi-1972-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Wreaths for a Wayfarer: A Poetry Anthology in Honour of Pius Adesanmi (1972-2019)<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with Nigerian author and poet (and doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta)&nbsp;Uchechukwu Umezurike, Dr. Otiono has launched this call six days after the sudden passing of Professor Adesanmi in the Ethiopian Airlines crash on 10 March 2019. This volume will be a poetic mediation on his life and times and his tragic demise, drawing on the title of Professor Adesanmi&#8217;s first book, <em>Wayfarer and Other Poems<\/em> (2001).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAS\u2019s Dr. Nduka Otiono is a co-editor of a special call for submissions for poetry in honour of our late Director, Professor Pius Adesanmi:&nbsp;Wreaths for a Wayfarer: A Poetry Anthology in Honour of Pius Adesanmi (1972-2019). Along with Nigerian author and poet (and doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta)&nbsp;Uchechukwu Umezurike, Dr. Otiono has launched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12714,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions\/12714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}