When we arrive at “Part II: Fusion, the fragments,” the poems put up a tougher resistance to surface-level interpretation, inviting one rather into a celebration of language that walks the balance between cryptic chaos and lyrical rapture. Here, the poet contemplates the paradox of the Nigerian spirit that insists on excellence amidst crippling dysfunction, while still finding solace in family, love, literature and music.
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Ogaga Ifowodo has won the 2026 Nigeria Prize for Literature and its $100,000 prize money…
Even so, Why Does God Need a Gun? achieves something noble: the creation and preservation of an important voice. Its poems, dense with lyricism, challenge us never to stop questioning our realities and beliefs, celebrating the boundlessness of human thought and consciousness as the closest thing possible to true divinity.
The field has narrowed and the race for the 2026 The Nigeria Prize for Literature…
The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) and NLNG held the 17th edition of their annual…
The 11 poets longlisted for the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature 2026, will be feted…
The celebrated season of the Nigeria Prize for Literature always ends on the note of…
The second National Conference and AGM of the Network of Book Clubs and Reading Culture…
Five more excerpts from the forthcoming Augusta’s Poodle (Poems of Childhood) by Ogaga Ifowodo XVIII…
Five excerpts from the forthcoming Augusta’s Poodle (Poems of Childhood) by Ogaga Ifowodo XI…
A CONTRADICTION tugs at the heart of this tribute, telescoped by its main title to…