Christopher Okigbo: 1930 - 67 ; thirsting for sunlight
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| Sprache: | English |
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Woodbridge [u.a.]
Currey [u.a.]
2010
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| Beschreibung: | XXVII, 276 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781847010131 9789780813710 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Photographs
Maps
Okigbo
family tree
ix
xiv
xvi
xx-xxv
xxvi-xxvii
xxviii
1
Λ
river goddess, his mothers death
&
a headmaster father
OJOTO
1930-45
1
2
Sportsman, actor
&
effortlessgenius
UMUAHIA
1945-50
31
3
Cricket, classics, politics
<&
urbane dissipation
IB AD AN
1950-56
61
Contents
4
Colonial civil servant, covert businessman
98
&
bankrupt
LAGOS
1956-58
5
Poetry gives purpose
121
to his voice
FIDITI
1958-60
6
A librarian ravenous for literature
146
&
women
N
SUKK
A
1960-62
7
Gentleman, poet
174
(¿^publisher
CAMBRIDGE HOUSE, IBADAN
1962-66
8
Aftermath of a coup, running arms
229
<&
advancing to death
BIAFRA
1966-67
Epilogue
259
Index
268
Vili
POET
·
LOVER
·
GUN RUNNER
Okigbo
is a gift for a biographer. Byron
-
chasing women, verse and death
-
is in the same league. The Sunday Times in London described
Christopher Okigbo s death in September
1967
fighting for the
independence of Biafra as the single most important tragedy of the
Nigerian civil war.
Okigbo
left behind a small but inspired body of
lyrical verse which grew from his fascination with his mystical Igbo roots
and with the poets of the classical world of Greece and Rome.
This book captures the excitement of the independence decade of the
Mbari Club and the journal Black Orpheus when Ibadan and Lagos, and
Nsukka and Enugu became literary and artistic centres which led the
whole continent. The Nigerian triumvirate of poet Christopher
Okigbo,
novelist Chinua Achebe and playwright
Wole
Soyinka achieved world
attention for writing from Africa.
Okigbo
is brought to life through vivid interviews with his contemporaries.
The book is full of Okigbo s arrant naughtiness at the expense of teachers,
priests, colonial officials, friends and women. He would plunge into
anything; sport, jazz, a coup, smuggling, gun-running, being a guerrilla.
But there were periods when, in spite of all his bounce, his friends had
to rescue him from deep despair. He learned to concentrate above all on
the craft of poetry, at whatever inconvenience to his friends, throwing
away version after version penned during all-night sessions. This first
full scale biography reveals why
Okigbo
has become such a cult figure in
world literature.
Obi Nwakanma, journalist and poet, is Assistant Professor in the
Department of English at Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri.
Contents: Preface
-
Chronology
-
A river goddess, his mother s death
&
a headmaster father
OJOTO
1930-45 -
Sportsman, actor
&
effortless genius UMUAHIA
1945-50 -
Cricket, classics, politics
&
urbane dissipation IBADAN
1950-56 -
Colonial civil servant, covert businessman
&
bankrupt
LAGOS
1956-58 -
Poetry gives purpose to his voice
FIDITI
1958-60 -
A librarian ravenous for
literature
&
women NSUKKA
1960-62 -
Gentleman, poet
&
publisher CAMBRIDGE HOUSE,
IBADAN
1962-66 -
Aftermath of a coup, running arms
&
advancing to death BIAFRA
1966-67 -
Epilogue
Cover: based on Christopher s Labyrinth: Coming
Er
Going, a painting by Victor Ehikhamenor,
reproduced by kind permission of the artist
(©
Victor Ehikhamenor)
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