{"id":884,"date":"2024-05-21T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/?post_type=writer&#038;p=884"},"modified":"2025-02-06T05:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T05:53:43","slug":"obari-gomba","status":"publish","type":"writer","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/obari-gomba\/","title":{"rendered":"Obari Gomba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Obari Gomba<\/em>, <span class=\"s5\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">a multiple award-winning writer, is <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">an Honorary Fellow in Writing at<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> the University of Iowa (USA). He has been TORCH Global South Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford (UK). He is presently the Associate Dean of Humanities at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. His poetry collection, The Lilt of the Rebel, won the PAWA Prize for African Poetry in 2022. His latest work of non-fiction, Free Troubles<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">,<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> was published by Masobe Books. In 2023, he won the Nigeria Prize for Literature for his work Grit.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1677,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"writer_category":[],"writer_tag":[],"class_list":["post-884","writer","type-writer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thb-post-share-style1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obari Gomba - Masobe Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/obari-gomba\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obari Gomba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Obari Gomba, a multiple award-winning writer, is an Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa (USA). 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