Tributes flow in for writer, scholar Funso Aiyejina

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Tributes flow in for writer, scholar Funso Aiyejina

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Professor Emeritus at UWI Funso Aiyejina. - Photo courtesy Bocas Lit Fest FORMER dean of Humanities and Education and Professor Emeritus at UWI Funso Aiyejina has died. The Nigerian-born Aiyejina was also a poet, short-story writer and playwright and a former deputy festival director of the Bocas Lit Fest. Tributes have begun to flow in from his contemporaries and those he worked with in the literary field. Among them, former […]

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