Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe’s first ever novel Things Fall Apart was originally published in the year 1958. Things Fall Apart is one of the most important...
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Kofi Awoonor
Songs of Sorrow Written By Kofi Awoonor I Dzogbese Lisa has treated me thus It has led me among the sharps of the forest...
Kofi Awoonor
Had Death Not Had Me in Tears Written By Kofi Awoonor Had death not had me in tears I would have seen the barges...
Kofi Awoonor
America Written By Kofi Awoonor A name only once crammed into the child’s fitful memory in malnourished villages, vast deliriums like the galloping foothills...
Chinua Achebe
Flying BY Chinua Achebe (for Niyi Osundare) Something in altitude kindles power-thirst Mere horse-height suffices the emir Bestowing from rich folds of prodigious turban...
Kofi Awoonor
Lament of the Silent Sisters Written By Kofi Awoonor (For Chris Okigbo, the well-known poet, killed in 1967 in the Nigerian civil war). That...
Kofi Awoonor
The Weaver Bird Written By Kofi Awoonor The weaver bird built in our house And laid its eggs on our only tree. We did...
Chinua Achebe
NON-commitment Written By Chinua Achebe Hurrah! to them who do nothing see nothing feel nothing whose hearts are fitted with prudence like a diaphragm...