We are the men of soul men of song we measure out our joys and agonies too, our long, long passion week in paces of the dance. We have come to know from surfeit of suffering that even the Cross need not be a dead end nor total loss if we should go to it … Continue reading Beware Soul Brother (A Poem) by Chinua Achebe
Today, in Idoto, a small literary festival is being held in honour of Christopher Okigbo. It is nice to know that poets and artistes find the grace of remembrance. One of the poets there gracing the event isChijioke Amu-nnadi who has kept pouring one new verse after the other on his road to that river, … Continue reading echoes of idoto (a poem) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
The moon has ascended between us, Between two pines That bow to each other; Love with the moon has ascended Has fed on our solitary stems; And we are now shadows That cling to each other, But kiss the air only Continue reading LOVE APART by Christopher Okigbo
For whom are we searching? For whom are we searching? For Okigbo we are searching! Nzomalizo! Has he gone for firewood, let him return. Has he gone to fetch water, let him return. Has he gone to the marketplace, let him return. For Okigbo we are searching! Nzomalizo! For whom are we searching? For whom … Continue reading A WAKE FOR OKIGBO (A POEM) by Chinua Achebe
Osofisan recounts this incident about how Okigbo took him to Mbari club one night to work. He was barely out of the secondary school and Okigbo was mentoring him. How for a few hours he managed to bang away at the typewriter before falling asleep. How in his sleep the smell of the midnight oil … Continue reading OKIGBO – MYTHMAKER & TOWNCRIER AT HEAVENSGATE by Hyginus Ekwuazi
Conversants: Ada Agada and Su’eddie Vershima Agema Ada AGADA: I promised this piece on Su’eddie’s prodding. Let me start by saying I believe in the universality of art, in the structured unity of the human mind regardless of race and cultural plurality. I will define universality simply as the transformation of the particular by … Continue reading ARTS AND ITS UNIVERSALITY: A CONVERSATION [1]
THOUGHTS ON HYGINUS EKWUAZI By Su’eddie Agema For the first time, I am publishing my ‘Thoughts’ not on a book or article but on a person, a friend, Dr. Hyginus Ekwuazi – no, not the fine medical Dr, a great man in himself but the elder Dr. For those who do not know this literary … Continue reading THOUGHTS ON HYGINUS EKWUAZI
Su'eddie in Life n' Literature 