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Christopher Okigbo

Died in 1967

Christopher Okigbo was born on 16 August 1932 in Ojoto, in Igbo country, the son of a catechist. A graduate in classics from Ibadan, a librarian and then an editor for a British university press, he also taught in a secondary school. His poetry mingles classical references and Igbo rites, and the goddess of his village's river returns in it again and again. Enlisted in the secessionist army, the only one of his generation to do so, he was killed at the front in 1967, aged thirty-five.

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