West Africa
Nigeria
Post-colonial
English
Poetry
Okigbo's collected poetry — Heavensgate, Limits, Silences, Distances, Path of Thunder — his compressed, allusive modernist verse drawn from Igbo religion, European literature, and jazz.
Literary Significance
Okigbo was killed fighting for Biafra in 1967; he is considered the finest poet in the African literary canon
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editorial-summarynot primary textOkigbo's collected poetry — Heavensgate, Limits, Silences, Distances, Path of Thunder — his compressed, allusive modernist verse drawn from Igbo religion, European literature, and jazz. Okigbo was killed fighting for Biafra in 1967; he is considered the finest poet in the African literary canon
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