28 US-based academics, including a number of South Sudanese alumni of the University of Juba, expressed their opposition to the suspension. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Liyong wrote highly imaginative short narratives, such as Fixions (1969), and unorthodox free verse,( ...) His nonfiction output consists of argumentative and amusing personal essays and bold literary criticism (...), presenting challenging new ideas in an original manner." Liyong has published over twenty books, including Carrying Knowledge Up a Palm Tree (1998), an anthology of poetry that addresses various contemporary issues and follows African progress in recent history. The East African Literature Bureau (EALB) published many of Liyong's earlier works in English, as well as in translation into East African languages. In his introduction to Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan, he wrote: Bibliography Poetry collections Frantz Fanon's Uneven Ribs (1971) Another Nigger Dead (1972) Ballads of Underdevelopment (1976) The Cows of Shambat (1992) Words that Melt a Mountain (1996) Carrying Knowledge Up a Palm Tree (1997) Corpse Lovers and Corpse Haters (2005) After Troy (2021) Short story collections Fixions (1969) Non-fiction Meditations in Limbo (1970) The Uniformed Man: Essays (1971) Thirteen Offensives Against Our Enemies (1973) The Universal Variety of Negritude (1976) Meditations of Taban lo Liyong (1978) Christmas in Lodwar (1979) Another Last Word (1990) Culture is Rutan (1991) Homage to Onyame (1997) Plays Showhat and Sowhat (2007) Literary criticism The Last Word: Cultural Synthesism (1969) References Further reading Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Leitch). African Timelines V:Post Independence Africa & Contemporary Trends AfriLitArchives5 Political Discourse – Theories of Colonialism and Postcolonialism Interview Taban Lo Liyong Daily Nation on the Web. 1939 births Howard University alumni Living people 20th-century Sudanese poets 20th-century Ugandan poets Sudanese emigrants to Uganda International Writing Program alumni Ugandan male poets Ugandan expatriates in the United States 20th-century male writers Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Knoxville College alumni Academic staff of the University of Nairobi Ugandan expatriates in Kenya