A Fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,Prof. Osayimwense Osa is the founding editor of the Journal of African Children's & Youth Literature (JACYL) and a professor of English at Virginia State University in the United States. Os
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A Fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,Prof. Osayimwense Osa is the founding editor of the Journal of African Children's & Youth Literature (JACYL) and a professor of English at Virginia State University in the United States. Osa has been a Fellow at the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany, and the International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka, Japan. He is the author of African Children's and Youth Literature in the Twayne's World authors series and the editor of The All-White World of Children's Books and African American Children's Literature. Osa has published numerous essays and reviews on African children's literature in various professional journals. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Golden Baobab - Inspiring African Children's literature, and also a member of the Advisory Board of Children’s Literature for Children, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He recently completed a Study Abroad in Morocco, and a Fulbright study abroad program in Senegal and Gambia and has taught in various colleges and universities on both sides of the Atlantic. He was the 2013 recipient of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellowship. Prof. Osa has two adult sons, two adult daughters, and five grandchildren—three boys and two girls.
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