Voicing African Voices

Author

Sanya Osha

Sanya Osha

Sanya Osha is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Naked Light and the Blind Eye. His fictional work, Dust, Spittle and Wind won the Association of Nigerian Authors’ prize for prose in 1992. In 2000, he was a recipient of a Prince Claus Award. He lives in South Africa and is currently a South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) fellow at the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria; and research fellow at the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), Pretoria.

Literature Novels and Short Stories

Naked Light and the Blind Eye

by Sanya Osha

At the end of his tether, Solomon Wenku contemplates a life gone awry amid widespread postcolonial squalor. Tani enters his life supposedly as a…

Literature Novels and Short Stories Urban Life

On A Sad Weather-Beaten Couch

by Sanya Osha

The most appealing quality of the novel is its haunting and unusual prose that really ought to be termed poetry. But this is poetry…

Literature Poetry

A Troubadour’s Thread

by Sanya Osha

This volume powerfully conveys the pilgrimage of a singular spirit through adversity, equanimity, immanence and eventually, transcendence. It grapples with a range of emotions,…

Literature Novels and Short Stories

An Underground Colony of Summer Bees

by Sanya Osha

A drug subculture finally becomes visible… indeed the themes of visibility and invisibility are what animate this haunting tale of loss, craving and abjection.…

Literature Novels and Short Stories

Dust, Spittle and Wind

by Sanya Osha

This is unquestionably a feat of powerful artistry. It deservedly won the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Prize for prose in 1992. Dust, Spittle &…

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