Tag: POET
Gboyega Odubanjo: UK police find body in search for missing poet
Northamptonshire Police on Thursday said they have found a body in the search for poet Gboyega Odubanjo who went missing over the weekend.
The 27-year-old...
Foremost Nigerian writer, Harry Garuba, dies in South Africa
Renowned writer, critic and scholar, Professor Harry Garuba, has died of leukaemia at age 61.
Garuba's death in Cape Town, South Africa on Friday came...
7 things to know about artist and poet, Uche Okeke
The tragedy of ancient black civilization was the fact that
so few of what the ancients knew was written down and whatever is not written
down...
Uche Okeke: Plaudits for poet, painter and prophet – Toni Kan
Book title: Art In Development – A Nigerian Perspective
Publishers: Iwalewa House
Year of publication: 2019
Pages: 175
In reflecting upon Uche Okeke’s paintings, poems and
drawings collected under...
Renowned poet, Gabriel Okara, dies at age 97
Renowned poet and novelist, Gabriel Okara, has died at aged
97, four weeks before his 98th birthday.
The veteran playwright died on Sunday at the Federal...
Poetics of Maya Angelou nine decades on
By Oluwafunmilayo Iyanda
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States of America on April 4, 1928. She enjoyed...