An Unusual Growth: The Development of Tijan M. Sallah’s Poetry

Abstract

Tijan M. Sallah is not the conventional African poet like Kofi Anyidoho, Frank Chipasula, Jack Mapanje, Chimalum Nwankwo, Niyi Osundare, and Tanure Ojaide, among so many others, who studied literature and teach literature in universities in Africa or in the West. He studied economics at both Berea College and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is an economist by profession. After a short period of university teaching in the United States, he joined the World Bank and has been working there till now. For over a decade, as part of his professional assignment working on rural development in the World Bank, he traveled extensively in Africa and the Middle East.