Dipo Kalejaiye (dkalejaiye@pgcc.edu)
5806 Shoshone Drive
Oxon Hill
MD 20745
Dipo Kalejaiye is an Associate Professor of English at the Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland, U.S.A. He was born in Akure, Nigeria, but was educated at the University of California, Berkeley. He also attended San Jose State University in San Jose, California, where he obtained a Masters Degree. Professor Kalejaiye is a poet, playwright, and theater director. Some of his awards include: The Ina Coolbirth Prize for Poetry which he received for his collection of poems The Demon of the Banana Tree; The James. D. Phelan Literary Award for playwriting given for his satirical play The Father of Secrets; and The San Francisco Full Circle Theater Award, for his play Danger Awake. Professor Kalejaiye has published poems, short stories, plays, and a series of short novels, including Food for Masquerades and Mammy-Water and Other Stories (Publish America Inc. U.S.A), and The Finicky Bird and Other Stories (Rising Star Publishers U.S.A.). His published plays include: The Creator and the Disrupter, (Centaur Press, Calabar, Nigeria 1982), Polygyny and Polyandry two plays about marriage, (Macmillan Publishers London, 1985), and a collection entitled The Father of Secrets and Other Plays, (Caltop Books Ibadan. 2006). Forthcoming in 2007 is Letters to the Grammarians: Some Memories of Growing Up (Rowman and Littlefield Academic Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts).
Listening to the Poet Seamus Heaney
The History of Nigeria According to "Baabu"
At Punch Out the Wizard’s Eye (Tejuoso)