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Article: Garlands of Anguish.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
- Author:
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Dubem Okafor confounds the Nigerian - albeit African - poetic landscape of so-called older and younger poets. His poetry calls for an acknowledgment of fluidity rather than rigidity of generational division. Okafor knew the legendary Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo very well; in fact Okafor lived with him and, in addition to coediting tributes to Okigbo, has written on him, including the forthcoming study The Dance of Death: Nigerian History and Christopher Okigbo. Okafor is not, therefore, just a younger writer exploiting Okigbo's reputation but rather one who knew him closely and who deeply felt the impact of the older poet's untimely death.
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