Madiba
ISBN-13: 9781592210503
Contributor(s): Ogaga Ifowodo
Subjects: Poetry
Publisher: Africa World Press
Publisher Imprint: Africa World Press
Publication Date: 01-09-2003
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£14.95
About the book
Winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors poetry prize and currently studying at Cornell, Ogaga Ifowodo has worked for eight years with Nigeria's foremost human rights group, the Civil Liberties Organisation, and was detained for two years by the military regime of General Sani Abacha, experiences which have deeply coloured his profound and striking poetry. Not since Pablo Neruda have I encountered a poet who better evidences the heart's full range' - Ken McClane, WEB Du Bois Prof. of Literature, Cornell 'A major poetic voice of his generation' - Biodun Jeyifo'