Labyrinthes

by Christopher Okigbo

224 pages

Published March 13, 2025

About the author

Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo (16 August 1932 – 1967) was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as an outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the 20th century.

Reviews

[Clémentine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Préface très complète qui permet de comprendre le contexte et mieux appréhender les poèmes.

'And you talk of the people :
There is none thirsty among them'

'Le tonnerre peut éclater - Terre attache-moi fort -
Entêtement, maladie des éléphants'