Biography
Harry Garuba was born in 1958 in Akure, Nigeria. At twenty-four, he published his debut collection, Shadow and Dream and Other Poems (1982), which was first runner-up in the inaugural All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry. In 1988, he received his MA and PhD from the University of Ibadan, where he also served as an assistant lecturer in the English department from 1981 to 1997. Garuba was a member of the editorial advisory board of the Heinemann African Writers Series and was well known for his active interest in African and postcolonial literatures. In 1998, he moved to South Africa and joined the faculty at the University of Cape Town in 2001. He died in Cape Town at the age of sixty-one.
Poetry Collections
Shadow and Dream and other poems (New Horn Press, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1982); Animist Chants and Memorials: Poems ( Kraft Books Limited, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2017)
Sources
"Harry Garuba." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 October 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Garuba. Accessed 14 October 2024.
Ibeh, Chukwuebuka. "Harry Garuba, Nigerian Poet and Renowned Professor of African Studies, Passes on at 61." Brittle Paper, 01 March 2020, www.brittlepaper.com/2020/03/harry-garuba-nigerian-poet-and-renowned-professor-of-african-studies-passes-on-at-61/. Accessed 24 April 2022.
Omoyele, Idowu. "Harry Garuba Obituary." The Guardian, 7 May 2020, www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/07/harry-garuba-obituary. Accessed 24 April 2022.
"Professor Harry Garuba | Department of English Literary Studies." University of Cape Town, www.english.uct.ac.za/professor-harry-garuba. Accessed 24 April 2022.
