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	Labyrinths - Christopher Okigbo
		Christopher Okigbo is still considered among the foremost African poets, of his or any generation.
		Okigbo suggests some of this in his introduction, and some of the poems reveal at least a bit more in their structure.
		Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo was born in 1932.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/nigeria/okigbo1.htm (688 words)

	The Trial of Christopher Okigbo - Ali A. Mazrui
		Okigbo was -- or wanted to be -- a poet's poet, believing the audience that would be interested in his work would, in any case (and specifically in Nigeria), be limited.
		Okigbo -- a legendary, larger than life figure -- makes for a neat hook for a novel, but Mazrui wisely chooses to go only so far: Okigbo, though at the center of events, is barely a presence in the novel.
		Okigbo and his poetry are well-used, and as far as programmatic literature goes it is certainly a success.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/nigeria/okigbo2.htm (1380 words)

	Christopher Okigbo, a biographical entry in Who's Who in 20th Century World Poetry
		Okigbo was born in the town of Ojoto in eastern Nigeria, a member of the Igbo ethnic group.
		Okigbo was educated at some of the best schools in colonial Nigeria, including the University College, Ibadan, where he graduated with a degree in Classics in 1956.
		Okigbo, SOYINKA and others have been labelled by one notable Nigerian school of criticism as suffering from "the Hopkins disease," said of those who are perceived to write poetry that is willfully obscure and rooted in a personal ethos closed off to the average reader.
	mark.redpale.org /writings/who-okigbo.htm (599 words)

	Christopher Okigbo and these times
		Okigbo was born in Ojoto, Igboland, eastern Nigeria, on 16 August 1932.
		For Okigbo, the spiritual is a crucial sphere of resistance and restoration because the ultimate objective of the occupation’s assault is aimed at funnelling a catastrophic fault-line in the soul of the people – to complicate their determined process of recovery on the morrow of the restoration of independence.
		Christopher Okigbo’s contribution to the development of 20th century African literature is extraordinary given the slim volume of his “collected works” of poetry.
	www.kwenu.com /publications/ekwe-ekwe/okigbo_times.htm (3805 words)

	Top U.S. varsities, scholars host Okigbo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Conference themed Postcolonial African Literature and the Ideals of the Open Society/Teaching and Learning from Christopher Okigbo's Poetry is one of the numerous activities outlined for celebrating the socially transformational vision" of the legendary poet on the 40th anniversary of his demise.
		Okigbo's work was effected by this sad development as his works witnessed a sharp decline in representation in academic curricular and other course syllabi at all levels of educational system particularly in Nigeria where until recently he was the most studied and the most anthologized poet.
		Additionally, a collection of previously unpublished poems by Okigbo, edited by Chukwuma Azuonye and the poet's daughter Obiageli Okigbo, is due to be published in June under the title, Elegy of Twilight and Other New Poems.
	www.kwenu.com /announcement/pressrelease/host_okigbo.htm (896 words)

	Okigbo
		A definitive re-reading of Okigbo's poetry and a foregrounding of its importance as prophecy and warning to Nigerians (nay, Africans!) and to the misrulers of Nigeria against continued national misdirection.
		Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967) was one of Africa's foremost poets whose life was cut short by the Biafran civil war.
		Okigbo's project included a sustained critical introspection, and his indignation, a militancy, despair, and ultimate martyrdom do not constitute a pessimistic closure.
	www.fb10.uni-bremen.de /anglistik/kerkhoff/AfricanLit/Okigbo.htm (387 words)

	My e-conversation with Obi Nwakanma - Poet and Journalist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Okigbo's poetry was new and magical to me when I came to it.
		You have also said that your poetic epiphany was the discovery of Christopher Okigbo who in fact has influenced poets such as Akomaye Oko and Obiora Udechukwu.
		By the time he died, Christopher Okigbo had established a reputation as the most gifted poet of his generation - one which had Achebe in the novel, Soyinka in drama, and Okigbo quite pre-eminent in poetry.
	www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk /NnoromAzuonye_MyeConversationWithObiNwakanma (1257 words)

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		Christopher lfekandu Okigbo was born on August 16, 1932 in Ojoto, eastern Nigeria, at the time still under British colonial rule.
		Okigbo studied at the Catholic school of Umulobia and began his secondary studies in the State College of Umuahia in 1945.
		He invited Christopher Okigbo to be one of the original Mbari committee together with: Georgina Beier, Wole Soyinka, J. P.Clark-Bekederemo, Chinua Achebe, Zeke Mphahlele, Amos Tutuola, D. Fagunwa, Dennis Williams, Demas Nwoko, Uche Okeke, Frances Ademola and Janheinz Jahn, the ethnologist.
	echeruo.syr.edu /okigbo/okigbobio.htm (1193 words)

	Okigbo Christopher - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Okigbo Christopher - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Chief among these were the Nigerians Christopher Okigbo and John Pepper Clark and Gambian Lenrie...
		Christopher, Warren (1925- ), American diplomat, Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton (1993-1996).
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Okigbo_Christopher.html (107 words)

	Vanguard - Arts: The poet who died at crossroads............
		Okigbo‘s grandfather was a priest of the Ojoto River goddess and Okigbo is believed to be his reincarnation.
		Okigbo was also a member of the famous literary association, the Mbari Club which was based in Ibadan.
		Okigbo left behind, a wife and a daughter, to whom he dedicated Labyrinths, a collection of poems, published by Heinemann in 1971 with Path of Thunder, which he said is ‘a fable of man‘s perennial quest for fulfilment‘.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/features/arts/at127112005.html (1130 words)

	Vanguard - Arts: Four American universities to raise Christopher Okigbo from the grave
		FORTY years after his untimely death at the Nsukka battle front, Africa’s most celebrated poet and Nigeria’s national poet, Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967) will literally be raised from the dust of the grave in faraway United States of America on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of his birth.
		There is no gainsaying the fact that Christopher Ifeanyichukwu Ifekandu Okigbo was unquestionably and by far, the greatest poet to emerge from the African continent of the twentieth century and indeed, in the words of Heinemann (Okigbo’s London publishers), one of the most remarkable poets of the present day.
		Okigbo’s masterpiece, Labyrinths (Heinemann, London,1971) now regarded as a modern classics and listed as one of the best 100 books of the last 100 years along with his Collected Poems (Heinemann, London, 1986) edited by Adewale Meja-Pearce, are now out of print.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/features/arts/at330042006.html (842 words)

	Christopher Okigbo Biography / Biography of Christopher Okigbo Biography
		The centrality of Christopher Okigbo in the development of modern poetry in Africa is an acknowledged reality.
		The irony of this recognition would not be missed by Okigbo himself, who, when asked by interviewer Marjory Whitelaw whether he thought of himself as an African poet, answered, "I think I am just a poet.
		Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-christopher-okigbo (238 words)

	Christopher Okigbo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo (1932-1967) was a Nigeria (A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country)
		Okigbo came to believe that his grandfather's soul was reincarnated (Reincarnation, also called transmigration of souls, is the rebirth in another body (after physical death), of...)
		Okigbo rejected the premise of "Negritude" upon which the magazine was based, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/christopher_okigbo (1930 words)

	Christopher Okigbo, Poetry Magazine, and the "Lament of the Silent Sisters"
		Christopher Okigbo's "Lament of the Silent Sisters," first appeared in Transition 8 (1963): 13—16 as Part I of a projected larger work entitled "Silences," the second part of which, "Lament of the Drums" would appear in Transition 18 (1965): 16—17.
		In an original essay, "The Emergence of the Poet of Destiny: A Study of Okigbo's 'Lament of the Silent Sisters,'" written in 1983 for his Critical Perspectives on Christopher Okigbo, Donatus Nwoga recalls that on a visit to Nsukka in 1963, Okigbo gave him a copy of "The Lament of the Silent Sisters" to read.
		Okigbo had told Bernth Lindfors in early 1963 that he was not "entirely satisfied" with the Transition version and was revising it for submission to Poetry.
	iupjournals.org /ral/ral35-3.html (653 words)

	The Jackdaw's Nest: Christopher Okigbo
		Christopher Okigbo (1932 - 1967) became the leading poet of Nigeria in the years prior to his death.
		His education at the University of Ibadan in classics provided him a solid background in European literature while his personal studies in African culture gave him a deep knowledge of indigenous literature, and his great gift was the ability to create a dynamic fusion of such disparate materials.
		There is an excellent biographical/historical/critical essay on Christopher Okigbo to be forund here.
	hedgeguard.blogspot.com /2006/02/christopher-okigbo.html (977 words)

	Research in African Literatures: Christopher Okigbo, Poetry magazine, and the "Lament of the Silent Sisters".(Critical ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Christopher Okigbo, Poetry magazine, and the "Lament of the Silent Sisters".(Critical Essay)
		Christopher Okigbo thought highly enough of his "Lament of the Silent Sisters" to revise it and submit it to Poetry magazine in May 1963.
		"anywhere, in any form." This article examines the revisions which Okigbo made to the earlier version of the poem both for the submission to Poetry and for Labyrinths.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:120848581&refid=ink_tptd_mag (228 words)

	Okigbo, Christopher - Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		OKIGBO, (Ifeanyichukwu) Christopher (1932-67), Nigerian poet, was born in Ojoto village in the former Eastern Region of Nigeria, baptized in the Roman Catholic religion, and educated at the prestigious Government College, Umuahia and University College, Ibadan, where he obtained a degree in classics in 1956.
		Okigbo's major accomplishment as an artist is his poetry, which he described as 'a necessary part of my being alive'.
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	people.africadatabase.org /en/profile/3759.html (511 words)

	ANA
		Following the news of what seemed a final decease receiving many media responses, a former editor for the series ADEWALE MAJA-PEARCE remembers his tenure in the editorial chair and counts the cost of its exit to African literature.
		Obiageli Okigbo, the only offspring of legendary poet, Christopher Okigbo, was in Nigeria from Brussels recently for a solo exhibition titled “Tapping into the unknown.” Dedicated to the memory of her father, the exhibition was hosted by Nimbus Art Centre, South West Ikoyi, Lagos, with the support of MBC International Bank.
		It was a metaphoric, visual interpretation of Okigbo’s meta-poetics.
	www.ana-ng.org /ANAReview.htm (237 words)

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	Okafor (1998) The dance of death: Nigerian history and Christopher Okigbo's poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Okafor (1998) The dance of death: Nigerian history and Christopher Okigbo's poetry
		The dance of death: Nigerian history and Christopher Okigbo's poetry
		Nigeria; In literature; Okigbo, Christopher; Criticism and interpretation
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	The Dance of Death: Nigerian History and Christopher Okigbo's Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Book Description: A definitive re-reading of Okigbo's poetry and a foregrounding of its importance as prophecy and warning to Nigerians (nay, Africans!) and to the misrulers of Nigeria against continued national misdirection.
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	inIVA: Library - Songs for Idoto: a celebration of Christopher Okigbo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Songs for Idoto: a celebration of Christopher Okigbo
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