Voicing African Voices

Author

Oka Obono

Oka Obono is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ibadan, celebrated for the extensive range of his scholarly and non-scholarly interests. For him, literature and philosophy were his first loves although he never took formal degrees in either subject. This debut collection, Shadrach and Other Poems, is the homage he pays to this impulsive poetic polygyny.

Literature Poetry

Shadrach and Other Poems

by Oka Obono

The story of how the poems in this collection survived an inferno at the University of Ibadan will have to be told someday in…

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