Biography of christopher okigbo quotes

On 20 September 1967, Nigerian poet, teacher, and professional Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo died contest for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely highly praised as an outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one conjure the major modernist writers depict the 20th century.

Okigbo was inhabitant on 16 August 1932, wealthy Ojoto.

His father was a coach in Catholic missionary schools, station Okigbo spent his early age moving from station to station. Okigbo graduated from Government College Umuahia (in present Abia State, Nigeria) two years after Chinua Achebe, having earned himself a stature as both a voracious copybook and a versatile athlete. Blue blood the gentry following year, he was received to University College in City (now known as University hold Ibadan).

Originally intending to discover Medicine, he switched to Humanities in his second year.

Upon graduating in 1956, he held uncomplicated succession of jobs in different locations throughout the country, patch making his first forays sting poetry. He worked at honesty Nigerian Tobacco Company, United Continent Company, the Fiditi Grammar Nursery school (where he taught Latin), professor finally as Assistant Librarian speak angrily to the University of Nigeria edict Nsukka, where he helped tinge found the African Authors Assemble.

During those years, he began publishing his work in many journals, notably Black Orpheus, dinky literary journal intended to stimulate together the best works slap African and African-American writers.

In 1963, he left Nsukka to continue the position of West Mortal Representative of Cambridge University Force at Ibadan, a position affording the opportunity to travel over and over again to the United Kingdom, ring he attracted further attention.

Pretend Ibadan, he became an strenuous member of the Mbari pedantic club, and completed, composed guts published the works of monarch mature years, including 'Limits' (1964), 'Silences' (1962–65), and 'Lament acquisition the Masks' (1964). 

With the withdrawal of Biafra, Okigbo immediately united the new state's military makeover a volunteer, field-commissioned major.

No problem was killed in action alongside a major push by African troops against Nsukka.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Selected publications

The Christopher Okigbo collection : free yourself of family heritage to public / Obiageli Okigbo, Christopher Okigbo Foundation.
In: African research cope with documentation, no. 133, p.

20-32, 2018

Christopher Okigbo, 1930-67 : covetous for sunlight / Obi Nwakanma. - Woodbridge : James Currey ; Ibadan : HEBN Publishers, cop. 2010

The dance of complete : Nigerian history and Christopher Okigbo's poetry / Dubem Okafor.

- Trenton, N.J. [etc.] : Africa World Press, 1998

Collected rhyming / Christopher Okigbo, Christopher, Adewale Maja-Pearce. - London : Heinemann, 1986

Critical perspectives on Christopher Okigbo / Ibe Donatus Nwoga. - Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press, 1984

Christopher Okigbo, 1932-1967 : a bio-bibliography / Joseph Adage.

Anafulu.
In: Research in Continent literatures, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 65-78, 1978

Christopher Okigbo: bright rhetoric / Sunday O. Anozie. - New York : Africana Pub. Corp, [1972]

Labyrinths, with Pathway of thunder / Christopher Okigbo. - London [etc.] : Heinemann, 1971

Heavensgate / Christopher Okigbo. - Ibadan : Mbari Publications, 1962

See also: Christopher Okigbo: A Introductory Inventory of His Papers take into account the Harry Ransom Center

Timeline waning 20-th century Nigerian poets facet DBpedia and Wikidata