Author: Ali Mazrui
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1803288329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Written during the Nigerian-Biafran War of the late 1960s, The Trial of Christopher Okigbo boldly tackles questions of Pan-Africanism and independence - with the answers leading to blissful immortality or eternal damnation... After a fatal car accident, Hamisi wakes up in a strange land called After-Africa – an afterworld for all Africans who have died since history began. He soon finds out, however, that his position in the afterlife hangs in the balance. To be allowed to stay, Hamisi must participate in the absurd trial of the renowned poet and solider, Christopher Okigbo, who was killed on the front lines. His crime? Choosing war over his art... The Trial of Christopher Okigbo is a wondrously surreal examination into the responsibilities of art and war and their uncomfortable coexistence. '[The Trial of Christopher Okigbo is] its own best proof that important political questioning and art are not mutually exclusive.' New York Times 'Whether in speech or in writing, Mazrui dissected and unravelled Africa in a delightful manner.' Guardian
The Trial of Christopher Okigbo
Author: Ali Mazrui
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1803288329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Written during the Nigerian-Biafran War of the late 1960s, The Trial of Christopher Okigbo boldly tackles questions of Pan-Africanism and independence - with the answers leading to blissful immortality or eternal damnation... After a fatal car accident, Hamisi wakes up in a strange land called After-Africa – an afterworld for all Africans who have died since history began. He soon finds out, however, that his position in the afterlife hangs in the balance. To be allowed to stay, Hamisi must participate in the absurd trial of the renowned poet and solider, Christopher Okigbo, who was killed on the front lines. His crime? Choosing war over his art... The Trial of Christopher Okigbo is a wondrously surreal examination into the responsibilities of art and war and their uncomfortable coexistence. '[The Trial of Christopher Okigbo is] its own best proof that important political questioning and art are not mutually exclusive.' New York Times 'Whether in speech or in writing, Mazrui dissected and unravelled Africa in a delightful manner.' Guardian
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1803288329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Written during the Nigerian-Biafran War of the late 1960s, The Trial of Christopher Okigbo boldly tackles questions of Pan-Africanism and independence - with the answers leading to blissful immortality or eternal damnation... After a fatal car accident, Hamisi wakes up in a strange land called After-Africa – an afterworld for all Africans who have died since history began. He soon finds out, however, that his position in the afterlife hangs in the balance. To be allowed to stay, Hamisi must participate in the absurd trial of the renowned poet and solider, Christopher Okigbo, who was killed on the front lines. His crime? Choosing war over his art... The Trial of Christopher Okigbo is a wondrously surreal examination into the responsibilities of art and war and their uncomfortable coexistence. '[The Trial of Christopher Okigbo is] its own best proof that important political questioning and art are not mutually exclusive.' New York Times 'Whether in speech or in writing, Mazrui dissected and unravelled Africa in a delightful manner.' Guardian
The Trial of Christopher Okigbo
Author: Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher: Okpaku Communications Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: Okpaku Communications Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Trial of Christopher Okigbo
Author: Ali AlʾAmin Mazrui
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The Trial of Christopher Okigbo
Author: Ali Al'Amin Mazrui
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Trial of Christopher Okigbo
Author: Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"A discourse on society, art, and war though weighed down by the systemic misogyny."--Goodreads
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"A discourse on society, art, and war though weighed down by the systemic misogyny."--Goodreads
Critical Perspectives on Christopher Okigbo
Author: Donatus Ibe Nwoga
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9780894102585
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A collection of essays and reviews, both favourable and negative, about the Igbo poet. The book begins with a memorial essay by Chinua Achebe. Other contributors examine the imagery that Okigbo drew from nature, history and politics, exploring the surrealistic qualities of his work.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9780894102585
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A collection of essays and reviews, both favourable and negative, about the Igbo poet. The book begins with a memorial essay by Chinua Achebe. Other contributors examine the imagery that Okigbo drew from nature, history and politics, exploring the surrealistic qualities of his work.
Heavensgate
Author: Christopher Okigbo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigerian poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigerian poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Postcolonial Justice
Author: Anke Bartels
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004335196
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Postcolonial Justice addresses a major issue in current postcolonial theory and beyond, namely, the question of how to reconcile an ethics grounded in the reciprocal acknowledgment of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice. The concept of postcolonial justice shared by the essays in this volume carries an unwavering commitment to difference within and beyond Europe, while equally rejecting radical cultural essentialisms, which refuse to engage in “utopian ideals” of convivial exchange across a plurality of subject positions. Such utopian ideals can no longer claim universal validity, as in the tradition of the European enlightenment; instead they are bound to local frames of speaking from which they project world.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004335196
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Postcolonial Justice addresses a major issue in current postcolonial theory and beyond, namely, the question of how to reconcile an ethics grounded in the reciprocal acknowledgment of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice. The concept of postcolonial justice shared by the essays in this volume carries an unwavering commitment to difference within and beyond Europe, while equally rejecting radical cultural essentialisms, which refuse to engage in “utopian ideals” of convivial exchange across a plurality of subject positions. Such utopian ideals can no longer claim universal validity, as in the tradition of the European enlightenment; instead they are bound to local frames of speaking from which they project world.
Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847011446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
21 Female Participation in War and the Implication of Nationalism: The Postcolonial Disconnection in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847011446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
21 Female Participation in War and the Implication of Nationalism: The Postcolonial Disconnection in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Christopher Okigbo, 1930-67
Author: Obi Nwakanma
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 184701013X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Biography of the Nigerian poet whose work combined Igbo mysticism and classical influences.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 184701013X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Biography of the Nigerian poet whose work combined Igbo mysticism and classical influences.