Our Guest Poet for March/April 2008 is Dubem Okafor - a professor of African Literature and Post-Colonial Theory & Literatures at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.   Dubem Okafor: The Sentinel Interview    To many students of African Poetry, Christopher Okigbo is one of the greatest to come out of the continent. His life and work were celebrated in 2007 during the Christopher Okigbo International Conference. Dr Dubem Okafor presented "Okigbo as Cultural Globalist" during that conference. For those who were unable to attend the conference, here is a chance to read the paper "Okigbo as Cultural Globalist"

 

Poets in this issue	Poets on Poets	Clubhouse
Dubem Okafor (Guest)  Joshua Seigal Bruce Gardner P A Morbid Andy Carrington   Photography by Victor Ehikhamenor	4Unoma Azuah, author of the poetry collection Night Songs, and the novel Sky-High Flames talks about the poetry of STACEYANN CHIN in the Reviews section of this magazine.   4Obododimma Oha is a poet who also teaches semiotics and stylistics at the University of Ibadan. Here he talks about the work of TOM SAVAGE	4The Clubhouse is the section of our magazine where you can place notices of your events such as exhibitions, readings, book signings, and performances. This is also where we list the poetry competitions organised by Sentinel or third parties.   "I grew up in the village, and for me village shrines are the origin of installation art."          -Victor Ehikhamenor