Christopher Okigbo (1932 - 1967)

A selective list of open access articles on the Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites


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Burt, Steve. A review of Jahan Ramazani's The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English (University of Chicago Press, 2001). College Literature, Summer 2003

Echeruo, Michael J.C. "Christopher Okigbo, Poetry magazine, and the 'Lament of the Silent Sisters.'" Research in African Literatures, 22-SEP-04

Ekwe Ekwe, Herbert. On Christopher Okigbo, in the Literary Encyclopedia, 7/26/04

Nwosu, Maik. "Christopher Okigbo and the postcolonial market of memories." Nwosu notes that "in the poetry of Christopher Okigbo, perhaps the most intriguing modern African poet, dialogism or the postcolonial market of memories figures in the constant conversation between the local and the foreign, the specific and the universal." Research in African Literatures, 22-DEC-07

Ogunsanwo, Olatubosun. "The Dance of Death: Nigerian History and Christopher Okigbo's Poetry." Brief paragraph on The Dance of Death: Nigerian History and Christopher Okigbo's Poetry by Dubem Okafor. (Trenton: Africa World P, 1998). Research in African Literatures, 22-DEC-01


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