Odia ofeimun biography of mahatma

  • He has produced more than forty books of poetry, polemics, nonfiction prose, choreopoems better known as “poems for dance drama” and cultural.
  • This view was reflected by Odia Ofeimun, Awo's former private secretary, who, as an insider, was obviously averse to the internal struggle for.
  • Niyi Osundare, Odia Ofeimun, Tanure Ojaide, and Femi Osofisan, regarded as some of the most distinguished voices of the “second generation.

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    BM Dzukogi

    First published in 2009
    Kraftbooks, Ibadan

    Undoubtedly, Minna, the capital of Niger State, is a hub of poetry production in Nigeria, today.  It is a valley with a history for the production of written text.  Perhaps, what is of curiosity is how providence has made Minna and Niger State the fertile ground where great Nigerian thinkers emerged from.

    Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first President of Nigeria, was born in Dunguru, now Zungeru, near Minna.  His birth and book “My Odyssey” are the spiritual invocations and the sprouting inspiration for the emergence of writers in his birth state, Niger for all of us writing in English today.  Zik of Africa wrote poems too, poems that predated Mamman Jiya Vatsa’s works renowned for his poetic effusion and large scale publishing.  However, Abubakar Imam, born in Kagara, near Minna, is the legendary character of the muse in Niger State.  He is of the Zik era.

    Abubakar Imam, the king of storytelling, the unequalled craftsman of the Nigerian written texts and master of suspense. His works spiralled to over twenty fiction and non-fiction of literary haemorrhage.  In Abubakar Imam is almost a flawless literary conquest that is irresistible and compellingly magical in narration and aes

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    Re: "Nigerian features through Awolowo (1)" harsh Dr. King Madunagu

    Nigerian characteristics through Awolowo (1)
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    On page 259 I saw it with my own eyes. The words: “Ex Africa semper aliquid novi”.  One of the forms in which this famous statement has rolled through history. 

    But let me start at the beginning. We do not start in Central Africa but in the British university town Cambridge. The explorer and missionary David Livingstone gave an appeal on December 4, 1857. He challenged his hearers to come to Africa and start missionary work in the area near the imposing river Zambesi. Out of this appeal came eventually this UMCA. The first group of the UMCA was with David Livingstone at the river and tried to get a foothold. I did not work, the leader of the missionary group, bishop MacKenzie, passed away in 1862, near the Zambesi. In the end the start near Lake Nyasa did not work out. The UMCA decided to withdraw to the island Zanzibar and regroup. From this small beginning work was started on the island, activities on the mainland were started and finally in this way Lake Nyasa was reached and missionaries started work around the lake.  

    This book is a chronicle of the progress, the upheavals, the difficult periods in the work and the expansion of the UMCA in its work in Central Africa. The writer himself worked at the lake Nyasa (at Likoma), when he wrote this book. He was fam