86th birthday of Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo

(Born 16 August 1930, Ojoto, Biafra)

Africa’s most celebrated and influential poet

(See also Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, “Christopher Okigbo, the African state, genocide and the peoples”, Harvard University symposium, 22 September 2007,
http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/on-christopher-okigbo-africas-leading.html)

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