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A Daughter’s Burden: Obiageli Ibrahimat Okigbo & the Christopher Okigbo Legacy
‘’Have you seen Nduka Otiono?’’ ‘’No I haven’t. Am sorry’.’ ‘’When you see him, tell him am angry with him.’ (I think Nduka, her host, had abandoned her temporarily). ’She moved her simply enthralling personality along then. And I was left standing there. Staring at her and her tall very white gypsy arrayed friend Sandra, who had accompanied her on this homecoming fiesta to Nigeria, wishing she was mine to keep forever and a day! Stupid me! I would discover later upon more camaraderie and closer inspection that she was older than my immediate elder sister Mariam and of course, the glaring differences of our worlds and feel more frustratingly stupid!
This was at the ANA Convention in Makurdi 2002, the lingering moments of the last days of my youth, bachelorhood, vagabond and miscellaneous desires- and how I met the OKIGBO heiress – Obiageli Ibrahimat Okigbo. Notwithstanding, the earlier cited differences between us did pretty little to ectomise me of that miscellaneous desire. In my hotel room later staring at her complimentary card, that hollowness still harassed me and did for quite a long time after the Makurdi Convention.
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Okigbo, Christopher
BORN: 1932, Ojoto, Nigeria
DIED: 1967, Nsukka, Nigeria
NATIONALITY: Nigerian
GENRE: Poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
Heavensgate (1962)
Limits (1962)
Poems: Four Canzones (1968)
Labyrinths, with Path of Thunder (1971)
Overview
An important transitional figure between traditional and contemporary African literature, Christopher Okigbo was one of Africa's most prominent poets writing in English. In rhythmic, musical poems, he imaginatively blends African culture and ritual with such influences as Christianity and Western poetics. With work reflecting a broad interest in the aesthetics of a variety of art forms—music, poetry, and the visual arts—Okigbo became an important figure in the international literary world. As a result, he drew attention to the postcolonial experience in Africa, particularly in Nigeria.
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
Missionary Background Christopher Okigbo was born in Ojoto, Nigeria, on August 16, 1932, to a traveling teacher and headmaster for a local Roman Catholic mission. Okigbo's childhood was shaped by his village of Ojoto, as well as the Nigerian mission schools where he lived, and the combination of indigenous and Western views of the world was to become a central element in his poetry. In 1936,
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POET’S PROFILE
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REVIEW
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