Christopher Okigbo
Nigerian poet who died fighting for Biafra, leaving a small but luminous body of modernist verse. Labyrinths is his most celebrated collection; his poetry synthesized Igbo oral tradition with Western modernism.
Works
- HeavensgateMystical poetry drawing on Christian and African spiritual traditions
- LimitsExperimental poetry exploring spiritual boundaries and transcendence
- Silences
- Lament of the Drums
- LabyrinthsComplex poetry navigating mythic and personal labyrinths
- Path of ThunderLate poetry exploring loss and political violence in Nigeria
- Distances