DIALOGUE WITH MY COUNTRY (2007) – Niyi OSUNDARE

“Those who are only familiar with Niyi Osundare’s poetry and judge his prowess as a writer by it, apprehend but half of the man. If his verse is redolent of Nigerian Romanticism, his essays, as exemplified in this volume, portray the realism of a keen and critical intelligence.” – Ayo BANJO

Dialogue With My Country captures brilliantly the reflections, often pained but never indifferent, as well as the insights of a scholar, poet, teacher, public scholar and cultural activist on the Nigerian condition – not just its well-known frustrations and discontinuities, but also its occasional triumphs, its stunning resilience, and its vast possibilities. – Olatunji DARE

Niyi OSUNDARE was educated at the universities of Ibadan, Leeds and York (Toronto). He has won many national and international prizes including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and Noma Award. Osundare is currently a professor of English at the University of New Orleans, USA.

SIXTY YEARS OF WINNING WITH NIGERIA: THE HISTORY OF NIGERIAN BREWERIES PLC 1946-2006 (2007) – Yemi OGUNBIYI

An engaging, eminently readable account of Nigerian Breweries’ corporate history, the up-downs, highs and lows, as well as profiles of the remarkable individuals who have helped to make it one of the most successful and dominant in Nigeria’s corporate history. Designed and packaged in a reader-friendly, colourful coffee-table format, and published to commemorate the company’s sixtieth anniversary, the book is accessible to a wide variety of readers.

Yemi OGUNBIYI taught at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, USA and at the University of Ife (now, Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife. A foundation member of The Guardian newspapers, Ogunbiyi went on to head the Nigerian Daily Times group of newspapers. He is presently the executive chairman of Tanus Communications Limited.