Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo (16 August 1932 – 1967) was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He...

Okigbo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bede Okigbo (1926–2017), Nigerian plant pathologist and geneticist Christopher Okigbo (1932–1967)...

Government Area in Anambra State; he was the older brother of the poet Christopher Okigbo. Receiving his secondary schooling at Christ the King College, Onitsha...

Muzanenhamo (Zimbabwe) Christopher Mwashinga (Tanzania) Arthur Nortje (South Africa) Gabriel Okara (Nigeria) Nii Parkes (Ghana) Christopher Okigbo (Nigeria) Ben...

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secede. Once the family had resettled in Enugu, Achebe and his friend Christopher Okigbo started a publishing house called Citadel Press to improve the quality...

Carnival in the institution. While there he became close friends with Christopher Okigbo and J.P. Clark, both of whom would go on to become prominent Nigerian...

Nortje - Richard Ntiru - Odia Ofeimun - Atukwei Okai - Gabriel Okara - Christopher Okigbo - Yambo Ouloguem - Frank Kobina Parkes - Okot p'Bitek - Lenrie Peters...

Professor Bede Nwoye Okigbo (September 29, 1926 – March 31, 2017) is a plant pathologist and geneticist, traditionalist and former Vice-Chancellor of University...

of the négritude movement and the eventual President of Senegal. Christopher Okigbo was killed in the 1960s' civil war in Nigeria; Mongane Wally Serote...

chance" wins Commonwealth Writers' Prize". CP Africa. "C. Okigbo 1932–1967". Christopher Okigbo Foundation. Archived from the original on 6 February 2010...

Rebecca Njau, Wole Soyinka, John Pepper Clark, Saunders Redding, Christopher Okigbo, Francis Ademola, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Arthur Maimane, and others. One...

Namibia | Revue Noire". www.revuenoire.com. Nwakanma, O. (2010:90). Christopher Okigbo, 1930-67: Thirsting for Sunlight. Nigeria: James Currey. The Oxford...

Craveirinha Noémia de Sousa Valente Malangatana Jorge Rebelo Gabriel Okara Christopher Okigbo Wole Soyinka John Pepper Clark Frank Aig-Imoukhuede Okogbuli Wonodi...

Tensions (1971), which is rich in imagery reminiscent of the poetry of Christopher Okigbo and Paul Ndu. Ntiru deals with issues of contemporary East Africa...

writer Gabriel Okara (1921–2019), poet Chioma Okereke, novelist, poet Christopher Okigbo (1932–1967), poet Julie Okoh (born 1947), playwright Nnedi Okorafor...

was at this time that he met and became friends with Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo where they started the publishing house Citadel Press, among its titles...

Battlefield Poet: Elegy for Christopher Okigbo is his first full-length published work." The Battlefield Poet: Elegy for Christopher Okigbo is a book that x-rays...

was suggested as the name by Achebe. Among other Mbari members were Christopher Okigbo, J. P. Clark and South African writer Ezekiel Mphahlele, Frances Ademola...

Catherine Obianuju Acholonu Chijioke Amu-Nnadi Chinua Achebe Chris Abani Christopher Okigbo Dami Ajayi Dennis Osadebay Diego Odoh Okenyodo Echezonachukwu Nduka...

influential author Cyprian Ekwensi – MFR, writer of international repute Christopher Okigbo - Poet Teresa Meniru - writer Ifeoma Onyefulu - Novelist Chukwuemeka...

Ojukwu and his closest confidants which included Louis Chude-Sokei, Christopher Okigbo, and the very influential CC Mojekwu. On May 30, 1967 Ojukwu officially...

Gabriel Okara, poet J.O.J. Okezie, Nigeria's first minister of health Christopher Okigbo, poet and publisher Chu Okongwu, Minister of National Planning and...

Patel] (New York and London: The Third Press). 1971: The Trial of Christopher Okigbo [novel] (London: Heinemann Educational Books and New York: The Third...

Christian preacher. His poetic voice has been compared to that of Christopher Okigbo and Leopold Senghor, two all-time leading figures of African poetry...

Atukwei Okai, Ghana Gabriel Okara, Nigeria Diego Odoh Okenyodo, Nigeria Christopher Okigbo, Nigeria Ben Okri, Nigeria Olatubosun Oladapo, Nigeria Onwuchekwa...

decolonization in anglophone Africa." In his opinion, Rajat Neogy, Christopher Okigbo, and Wole Soyinka, were among the writers who "repurposed modernist...

Laureate in Literature), John Pepper Clark, Obi Wali, Gabriel Okara, Christopher Okigbo, Bernard Fonlon, Frances Ademola, Cameron Duodu, Kofi Awoonor; from...

Masters of the Board, which was about a Neo-Nazi takeover of Nigeria Christopher Okigbo (1932–1967) Cyprian Ekwensi (1921–2007) E. Nolue Emenanjo (born 1943)...

commissioned original version of the song "Charlie on the M.T.A." Christopher Okigbo – Nigerian poet Major Owens – U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY)...