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Labyrinths

Christopher Okigbo
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Region

West Africa

Nigeria

Era

Post-colonial

Language

English

Genre

Poetry

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Okigbo's collected poetry — Heavensgate, Limits, Silences, Distances, Path of Thunder — his compressed, allusive modernist verse drawn from Igbo religion, European literature, and jazz.

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Okigbo was killed fighting for Biafra in 1967; he is considered the finest poet in the African literary canon

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Okigbo'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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