DANCE OF DEATH: NIGERIAN HISTORY AND CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO'S POETRY Critical Studies ) and the misrulers of

) and the misrulers of Nigeria against continued national misdirection

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Reprint edition (December 30

Managing the antics of her adulteress young cousin

Paperback : 108 pages

DANCE OF DEATH: NIGERIAN HISTORY AND CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO'S POETRY Critical Studies ) and the misrulers ofChristopher Okigbo (1932 1967) was one of Africa's foremost poets whose life was cut short by the Biafran civil war. This book represents a definitive re reading of Okigbo's poetry and a foregrounding of its importance as prophecy and warning to Nigerians (nay, Africans!) and the misrulers of Nigeria against continued national misdirection. Locating the poet squarely with all communalistic traditional African poetics, in which aesthetics and social