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Songs of Poets
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My Cousin Sammy
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The Slave Wife
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The Sahara Testaments
This volume of poetry, the third by the poet, explores the immensity and range of the Sahara desert as a metonymy. It won the Nigeria Prize for Literature in the year 2013 and was described by the panel of judges as 'encyclopedic'. In a wide ranging exploration of the quatrain, the poetry in this volume tests Shelley's assertion that poetry is both center and circumference.
Iredi War
Iredi War was the winner of The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2014. The playwright introduces the notion of 'folk script' with its special stamp. The use of the oral literature genre allows for the full exploitation of the creative licence which allows for the swings from the historical to the oral, the natural to the supernatural, the real to the fantastic.
Oduduwa - King of the Edos
ODUDUWA, KING OF THE EDOS is a play which explores the true identity of an ancient African King who was believed amongst numerous competing historical accounts to have come down from the heavens (skies) to found the present day Yoruba people of South Western Nigeria. It attempts to draw congruence between mythical accounts of his origin which are found in the oral traditions of the Edos of present day Mid-Western Nigeria, those of the Yorubas of Ile-Ife in particular, and Western Nigeria in general, while imagining an explanation as to the divergence in their accounts. It seeks to answer the questions: was Oduduwa a god that ruled men, the fi-rst creation of the supreme God, an exiled Edo prince or was he a mere mortal whose leadership qualities became legendary and thus exalted him to the status of the progenitor of the Yorubas? Set in the kingdoms of Igodomigodo and Ile-Ife, it journeys across time into the more recent pre-colonial Benin city and Ile-Ife, while using well rounded characters, loftily crafted language, deep cultural mores, scintillating music, dance, fast paced action and intrigue in bringing to life a captivating period in the history of the Yorubas and Edos.
Alekwu Night Dance
A play about a society at odds with itself portrayed by how the people reacted to the rape and murder of a young woman.
