September 2007  - Christopher Okigbo Special Edition

A drawing of Christopher Okigbo by Obiora Udechukwu.

CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

19 - 23 SEPTEMBER, 2007

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Editorial

The Masquerade of Masquerades

Features & Reviews

Okigbo: Empty Grave for the Poet

by Uduma Kalu

The Meaning of Christopher Okigbo

by Obi Nwakanma

My Apology, Brother Pius

by Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo

Poetry

Christopher Okigbo

Solitude invites,

A wagtail, to tell

The tangled-wood-tale;

A sunbird, to mourn

A mother on spray.

James Tar Tsaaior

You still are the burden of our creaking boulder

          Town crier, still announcing the adolescent dawn

Like the muezzin-cockerel. You still proclaim, prophet

          In apocalyptic accents the crime of the stolen dream.

Obiwu

Did he who cut and crushed a young tendril

Also deny it the burial of the earth?

Jumoke Verissimo

What if he had rained more pieces of magic sapphire?

— that Okigbo —

that heritage of an unborn…

Obododimma Oha

We bring him home bring him home bring him home!

A burial not enough,

We bring him home to the grove

Where the navel-cord

Ropes the foot of a dedicated palm tree

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