"Dike Okoro's poetry is passionate, high imagistic and sensuous, and possesses a special lyrical quality." - Tanure Ojaide, (Poet and Scholar), Frank Porter Graham Professor of African Studies, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA "Dike Okoro is an accomplished poet, and one of the most promising members of the new generation of literary critics and writers to come out of Africa in recent years" - Lupenga Mphande, (Poet and Scholar), Professor of African/African-American Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH "Okoro covers serious issues with a tactful demeanor" -Nii Okanaj, Chicago Defender

In the Company of the Muse

Literature & Fiction

Okoro, Dike

Poetry

Cissus World Pr

New Perspectives on Mazisi Kunene shares with readers an interview inspired by correspondence and prolonged conversations on the telephone. The focus of this interview, Mazisi Kunene, is arguably one of Africa's greatest poets. Kunene's contributions to African literature as both scholar and artist remains significant, given his commitment to writing in his indigenous Zulu language and translating his corpus into English. Ntongela Masilela, a close friend to Kunene and scholar who has written extensively on Kunene oeuvre, shares views that center primarily on Kunene's importance in African literature, and his role and place in South African literary and cultural revolution.

New Perspectives on Mazisi Kunene

History & Criticism

Cissus World Press

These stories portray life as instances of change under a canopy of love, avarice, determination, redemption, and triumph. They are all vignettes of life in certain realistic and ephemeral ways. [Okoro] portrays realism and illusion as two sides of a coin which inevitably propel us into fantasy, and awareness. The stories have a certain speed. They seem to move and confront us with certain vagaries of life. We enjoy these vagaries even when they occur unexpectedly as in "The Cross Bearer", where we find out that the person falsely accused of impregnating a girl was finally released when the real culprit was discovered. In "Boma's Wedding" the plight of someone unknowingly falling in love and wanting to marry her own father becomes a kind of puzzle, a certain tragedy of errors, so to speak. The fact that in most of the stories the environment is Port Harcourt Nigeria makes it homely for Nigerian readership.The reader of these short stories will also enjoy the candor, the humor and the wit inherent in them, particularly when the story stops to delve into a dream sequence and finally back into the actual story mode. The metaphorical intention of the author agrees with the literary symbolism of each short story. This is a delight. - Oladipo Kalejaiye, PhD Head of Department, Theater Art & Culture, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Letter to Aisha and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Futurism and the African Imagination (Routledge Studies in African Philosophy)

This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. 
Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the intersection of African diaspora culture with technology, science and science fiction. However, this book argues that literature and other arts within Africa have always reflected on themes of futurism, across diverse forms of speculative writing (including science fiction), images, spirituality, myth, magical realism, the supernatural, performance and other forms of oral resources. This book reflects on themes of African futurism across a range of literary and artistic works, also investigating how problems such as racism, sexism, social injustice and postcolonialism are reflected in these narratives. Chapters cover authors, artists, movements and performers such Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Elechi Amadi, Mazisi Kunene, Nnedi Okorafor, Lauren Beukes, Leslie Nneka Arimah and the New African Movement. The book also includes a range of original interviews with prominent authors and artists, including Tanure Ojaide, Lauren Beukes, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Benjamin Kwakye, Ntongela Masilela and Bruce Onobrakpeya. 
Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book will be an important resource for researchers across the fields of African literature, philosophy, culture and politics.

Reference

Routledge

Mazisi Kunene (Routledge Studies in African Literature)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence. Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural identity and condemn the disruption of the growth and development of African culture through colonialism/postcolonialism. This book explores how 'oraliterature' and cultural traditions informed Kunene's poetry, how Kunene's poetry highlights African women and mothers, and how activism, mythology and transnational identities are depicted in his verse to promote cultural and generational continuities from Africa to the Diasporic Africans. Drawing on a range of interviews and comparative studies, the book situates Kunene's work in a wider conversation about South African social struggles. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of one of the giants of African literary history. As such, it will be of interest to researchers across African literary and postcolonial studies.

Dike Okoro analyzes the various manifestations of ecocriticism and political activism in the poetry of Lupenga Mphande, who was arguably Africa's first poet to explore the existence of territorial cults and natural shrines in his work. This book is recommended for students and scholars seeking new interpretations of the African experience in contemporary world literature.

Lupenga Mphande: Eco-Critical Poet and Political Activist (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)

Lexington Books

This collection of twenty-six poems are bonded by passion and knowledge, and imaginations invoked which represent the vastness of the human society: pictures of history, tributes to courageous writers, the beauty of landscape, the indebtedness to folklore and oral traditions, and the spontaneity of silent aspirations. Written from a variety of perspectives, the collection is organized thematically dealing with emotions and passions, in voices that addresses both public and private concerns. The collection conjures a universal and human vision of poetry, constructing and opening doors of memory.

Dance of the Heart (Malthouse African Poetry)

Malthouse Press

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In the Company of the Muse

New Perspectives on Mazisi Kunene

Letter to Aisha and Other Stories

Futurism and the African Imagination (Routledge Studies in African Philosophy)

Mazisi Kunene (Routledge Studies in African Literature)

Mazisi Kunene (Routledge Studies in African Literature)

Lupenga Mphande: Eco-Critical Poet and Political Activist (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)

Dance of the Heart (Malthouse African Poetry)