Friday 23 June 2023

Sacrifice by Christopher Okigbo

Thundering drums and cannons
in palm grove:
the spirit is in ascent.

I have visited,
on palm beam imprinted
my pentagon –

I have visited, the prodigal…

In palm grove
long drums and cannons:
the spirit in the ascent.

Christopher Okigbo
Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was born in 1930. He was a Nigerian poet and he is today widely acknowledged as one of the most outstanding postcolonial English-language African poets and one of the major modernist writers of the twentieth century. He died in 1967 while fighting for the independence of Biafra.
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