MBALI PRESS EDITION of SOQAGA BOOK

Ishmael Mzwandile Soqaga's study on O. Bolaji.
Design and lay-out by Phinithi Ntelekoa

Published: 2012

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR OMOSEYE BOLAJI

Lifetime Achievement Award for Omoseye Bolaji

Dateline: 16 November, 2012

Clocolan, South Africa

Frontline writer Omoseye Bolaji bagged another Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural Mbali Literary Association Awards (2012) held in Clocolan at the weekend. There was great applause as the special award for the prolific, selfless literary activist was announced. Here is the brief Citation on Bolaji at the Mbali Awards:

“Mbali Awards Committee is also happy to announce that we decided to bestow a special Lifetime Achievement award on Mr Omoseye Bolaji this year. Here is a man who has seen it all and done it all. Mr Bolaji is truly a great African writer. Not only because he has published some 30 books of various genre. Not only because multiple critical books have been published on him; not to talk of countless essays published around the world on his literary work; and never mind his many awards. But also mainly because he has dedicated his life selflessly to promoting quintessential literature, inspiring, spreading pertinent literary information and knowledge in excellent fashion whilst somewhat seemingly lurking in the background most of the time. He remains the key, pivotal protagonist in respect of our literature.”

LITERARY WORKS BY OMOSEYE BOLAJI

Fiction

The Termagant (1988)

Impossible Love (2000)

The ghostly adversary (2001)

Tebogo Investigates (2000)

Tebogo’s spot of bother (2001)

Tebogo Fails (2003)

People of the Townships (2003)

Ask Tebogo (2004)

Tebogo and the Haka (2008)

Tebogo and the epithalamion (2009)

Tebogo and the pantophagist (2010)

Tebogo and the bacchae (2012)

Short Stories

They never say when (1994)

The Guillotine (2001)

You never know with women (2002)

The Quack of Qwaqwa (2003)

The Artist (2012)

The Pyrrhic victory (2012)

Drama

The subtle transgressor (2006)

Biographies

The story of Collins Mokhotho (2000)

Gilbert Modise: the man and the myth (2001)

Molebogeng Alitta Mokhuoa (2004)

My life and literature (2007)

Poetry

Snippets (1998)

Reverie (2006)

Poems from Mauritius (2007)

Literary essays/General

The golden pen of Eselby (1994)

Fillets of Plaice (2000)

Thoughts on Free State Writing (2002)

My Opinion (2005)

Miscellaneous Writings (2011)

It Couldn't Matter Less (published in 2013)
 

Sport

Eagles at USA 94 (1994)

Books (Studies) published on Bolaji’s work

Omoseye Bolaji: His writings/his role as a catalyst for FS Writing By Pule Lebuso (2001)

Omoseye Bolaji: Perspectives on his literary work. By Flaxman Qoopane (2003)

Omoseye Bolaji: Channelling one’s thoughts onto paper. By Charmaine Kolwane (2005)

Tebogo on the prowl: A study of Tebogo Mokoena created by Omoseye Bolaji: By Petro Schonfeld. (2006)

THE TRIUMPH: Lifetime Achievement Award for Omoseye Bolaji. By Urbain Tila (2007)

Omoseye Bolaji: On awards, authors, Literature. By Pule Lechesa (2007)

The crest: Omoseye Bolaji honoured in Nigeria. By Flaxman Qoopane. (2008):

Omoseye Bolaji: Further perspectives. By Julia Mooi. (2009)

OMOSEYE BOLAJI By Hector Kunene (2012)

Omoseye Bolaji: A Voyage around his literary work. By Ishmael Mzwandile Soqaga (2012)

The other Mbali awardees

George Rampai – Winner, Author of the Year

Ishmael Mzwandile Soqaga – Winner, Promising newcomer of the year

Kgang Abel Motheane – Winner, Commentator on Literature Award