<p>A collection of poems as meditations on subjects as diverse as tradition, the poet's artistic relationship with Ted Hughes, Ken Saro Wiwa, the ancestors, strikes, black-white children, the `real world' versus the world of poetic creation, Lagos and Abuja. In common, the poems have the interests of Africa at heart. They are told with a sardonic wit, and express a basic faith in the power of creative expression.</p>

Heart Sounds

Literature & Fiction

Lamikanra, Adebayo

Poetry

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Winging Words. Interviews With Nigerian Writers And Critics

OHAETO, Ezenwa

History & Criticism

A Carnival of Looters

Olafioye, Tayo

<p>Ifowodo was a frontline student leader in the early eighties and is a lawyer and civil rights activist. In 1996 he was a writer-in-residence at the Heinrich Boell Foundation. He was imprisoned between 1997 and 1998 and was subsequently adopted by PEN. This is his first collection of poetry which won the 1993 Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize. Many of the poems are responses to politics; or spring from the tensions between writing political poetry, or art for art's sake, and other competing subjects of poetry, such as romantic love. The poet, quoting Neruda, first asks the reader expecting a poetic celebration of his natural world to 'come see the blood in the streets'. In the section section he writes tributes to Tracey Chapman, Winnie and Nelson Mandela and Margeret Thatcher ('the butcher'). The subject of the third section is the rediscovery of romantic love, amidst and beyond turmoil and oppression.</p>

Homeland and Other Poems

Ifowodo, Ogaga

Esiaba Irobi's Drama and the Postcolony: Theory and Practice of Postcolonial Performance

Diala, Isidore

Dramas & Plays

Birthcry

Nwakanma, Obi

50 YEARS OF SOLO PERFORMING ART IN NIGERIAN THEATRE

GREG MBAJIORGU

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