The Oil Lamp: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Ogaga Ifowodo

Poetry

Africa World+press

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.

Homeland and Other Poems

Africa Research & Publications

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The Oil Lamp: Poems

Homeland and Other Poems