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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985
Okigbo, Christopher
Biography
Nigeria
Birth date: 1932-08-16
Birth location:
Ojoto,
Nigeria
Death date: 1967-01-01
Christopher Okigbo was a Nigerian activist and poet who died defending the independent Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War in 1967. During his life, Okigbo helped to found the African Authors Association and published his work in various journals, notably the literary journal "Black Orpheus." Okigbo rejected the first African poetry award of the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Okigbo
Education
- University of Ibadan
News Items (49)
- Paths to Refinement (1969-07-24) | Mentioned Poet
- Scorning the Sonnet (1983-09-16) | Poet
- Nigerian traditions (1972-01-07) | Mentioned Poet
- Poetry from Africa (1963-08-02) | Poet
- The editor lied (1991-01-18) | Poet
- The Lyrics of the President (1973-07-13) | Mentioned Poet
- For Christopher Okigbo (1972-10-09) | Mentioned Poet
- Winning struggle to reestablish African culture alongside the economic revolution (1972-10-09) | Poet
- Modern African Writers (1972-02-11) | Mentioned Poet
- Police hold playwright (1967-10-30) | Mentioned Poet
- African Culture Asserted After Struggle (1976-07-22) | Poet
- Voice of the poets (1965-09-13) | Poet
- Books of the 1960s-2 (1965-09-16) | Poet
- The Power of Print, II: What Do African Intellectuals Read? (1972-05-12) | Mentioned Poet
- Writing in West Africa: A Chance to Adapt and to Experiment (1962-08-10) | Poet
- Through the Drum (1972-12-29) | Poet
- Literature as Symptom (1963-01-11) | Poet
- Literary impact on world scene (1970-09-30) | Poet
- Far Removed (2010-11-05) | Poet
- One World in Four Volumes (1972-07-07) | Poet
- Oxford University Press (1971-06-04) | Poet
- New writers emerge after the 'big sleep' (2008-06-24) | Poet
- The Times Literary Supplement: 27 July 1973 (1973-07-27) | Poet
- Leading source for Negro art (1971-10-01) | Poet
- Cultural Studies (2011-11-04) | Poet
- Heinemann: New African Writing (1972-03-03) | Poet
- The Literature of the Civil War (1972-03-03) | Poet
- Heinemann Educational Ltd (1971-11-19) | Poet
- Full Analysis of the War Awaited (1972-03-06) | Poet
- Heinemann (1969-10-02) | Poet
- Gestures of yearning, acts of faith (2012-11-02) | Poet
- Eng. Lit. Expands (1969-12-04) | Poet
- At the crossroads of cultures (1975-10-17) | Poet
- New Africana from Evans (1973-03-02) | Poet
- African Writers Series reaches 100 (1972-02-25) | Poet
- A change of address (2002-01-25) | Poet
- Contents (2010-11-05) | Poet
- The people who are Africa (2010-04-02) | Poet
- The Times Diary: Poetic Justice (1969-09-03) | Poet
- The arrest of Ken Saro-Wiwa (1993-07-02) | Poet
- African Exports (1973-06-27) | Poet
- A poet in arms (guns, sub-machine 9mm, 1007) (1966-10-30) | Poet
- Africa speaks (1972-04-09) | Poet
- Then and Now: A Change of Address (2014-08-08) | Poet
- Uprooting the malignat fictions (1988-09-23) | Poet
- African fiction: a sense of urgency (1976-12-12) | Poet
- Surveying Yeats from China to Peru (1966-02-10) | Poet
- Books for a Commonwealth: Publishing locally or from London (1962-08-10) | Poet
- The Primacy of the Performer (1976-09-17) | Poet
Events (5)
Related Works (68)
- Understanding African Poetry: A study of Ten Poets (1982) (Poet)
- Poems from Black Africa (1963) (Poet)
- Leopold Sedar Senghor (1963) (Mentioned Poet)
- The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English (1990) (Poet)
- No Longer at Ease (1960) (Poet)
- Arrow of God (1964) (Poet)
- The Day Natal Took Off: A Satire (1963) (Poet)
- The Voice (1964) (Poet)
- The Second Round (1966) (Poet)
- The Interpreters (1964) (Poet)
- Sirens, Knuckles, Boots. Mbari Publications, 1963. (1963) (Poet)
- Lenrie Peters: Poems (1964) (Poet)
- Heavensgate (1962) (Poet)
- Limits (1964) (Poet)
- An Introduction to the African Novel (1972) (Mentioned Poet)
- The Emergence of African Fiction (1972) (Mentioned Poet)
- African Writers Talking: A collection of interviews (1972) (Mentioned Poet)
- Christopher Okigbo, 1930-67: Thirsting for Sunlight (1930) (Mentioned Poet)
- Christopher Okigbo, 1930-67: Thirsting for Sunlight (1930) (Work Author)
- Classical and Byzantine and Oriental and African: The Penguin Companion to Literature (1969) (Mentioned Poet)
- Interview with Christopher Okigbo (1965) (Mentioned Poet)
- The Trial of Christopher Okigbo (1971) (Mentioned Poet)
- A Man of the People (1966) (Poet)
- The Trial of Christopher Okigbo (1971) (Mentioned Poet)
- Labyrinths and Path of Thunder (1971) (Poet)
- Labyrinths and Path of Thunder (1971) (Work Author)
- Satellites (1967) (Poet)
- Letters to Martha and other poems (1969) (Poet)
- Labyrinths and Paths of Thunder (1971) (Poet)
- Nocturnes (1971) (Poet)
- Selected Poems (1970) (Poet)
- The Chosen Tongue: English writing in the tropical world (1970) (Mentioned Poet)
- Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975) (Poet)
- Christopher Okigbo: Creative Rhetoric (1972) (Mentioned Poet)
- Early Achebe (2009) (Mentioned Poet)
- Contemporary Poets of the English Language (1969) (Mentioned Poet)
- Wole Soyinka: Modern African writers (1978) (Mentioned Poet)
- Christopher Okigbo: Creative Rhetoric (1972) (Mentioned Poet)
- White Writing: On the culture of letters in South Africa (1988) (Poet)
- Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays (1988) (Poet)
- Heavensgate (1962) (Poet)
- Heavensgate (1962) (Work Author)
- Labyrinths with Path of Thunder (1971) (Poet)
- Labyrinths with Path of Thunder (1971) (Work Author)
- Christopher Okigbo: Collected Poems (1986) (Poet)
- Christopher Okigbo: Collected Poems (1986) (Work Author)
Commentaries (5)
- A Critical Reading of John Willett’s “Literature as Symptom
- “A Critical Reading of Robert Fraser’s Comments on Christopher Okigbo in His TLS Article, “Far Remove”
- Commentary on Jeremy Brooks’ Review of “Survive the Peace” by Cyprian Ekwensi and M.M. Carlin’s Review of “Understanding African Poetry” by Ken Goodwin, Referencing Christopher Okigbo
- Christopher Okigbo in Three British Newspaper Reports Between 1966 and 1993
- [Kwesi Brew's Ideology Misinterpreted ](apdp.commentary.000013)
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