Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Okigbo Ifekandu ( born August 16, 1932 in Ojoto, Eastern Nigeria, † 1967 near Nsukka ) was a Nigerian poet. His poems draw on both the Greek mythology and the classics of European literature as well as the traditions of the Ibo.

Life

Christopher Okigbo was one of four children of James and Anna Okigbo Onugwalobi - Okigbo, a Catholic family. He studied classical philology at the University of Ibadan and was then official, teacher, librarian and manager of the Cambridge University Press for West Africa. In Ibadan, he came through the club Mbari in contact with the authors to Wole Soyinka and John Pepper Clark. His poems have resorted to the political situation in independent Nigeria and saw much advance. When the Biafran war broke out, he had a publishing project with Chinua Achebe give up and joined the army of Biafra. He was major, but dropped in September 1967 near the town of Nsukka. Posthumously awarded the National Order of Merit of the short-lived Republic of Biafra, he was awarded.

2007, the collected works Christopher Okigbos were included in the list of UNESCO World Documentary Heritage.

Works

• Heaven Gate (1962, poetry )
• Limits (1964, poetry )
• Labyrinths with Path of Tunder (1971, poetry )