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Let the Lion Eat Straw
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Ellease Ebele N. Oseye (Ellease Southerland)
Brooklyn born novelist, poet, educator and international speaker, Ellease Ebele N. Oseye, whom Maya Angelou described as "A seer of the interior landscape," has been teaching literature of African Peoples at Pace University in Lower Manhattan for forty-eight years. She has also taught at Borough of Manhattan Community College for twenty years.
Professor Oseye's novel, Let the Lion Eat Straw, which received the Coretta Scott King Honors, first published by Charles Scribner's Sons, honors the life of her mother, Ellease Dozier Southerland, musician, mother of nine sons and six daughters. The African Burial Ground National Monument holds a sacred place in the heart of this author who listened with unbelieving ears as her mother made real the brutality of enslavement. The listening daughter had not yet started school and was only five years old. Oseye was honored to attend the opening ceremony, dedicating this sacred ground, remembering our ancestors' struggles, remembering our ancestors most precious lives.
Professor Oseye's travels include Nigeria (more than thirty visits), Ghana, Egypt, Jamaica West Indies and many parts of the United States. Professor Oseye was a Member of the Panel of Judges for Fiction, NYS Council for the Arts, 1992, made a Fellow of the African Studies Institute of the University of Nigeria in August 1998, received the Gwendolyn Brooks Award for poetry in 1972.
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