This is one of the earliest poems of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo and has been widely anthologized. One of the most successful of his poems, it was first published in Poems (1962) and reprinted in A Reed in the Tide (1965)…. Read More ›
Nigerian poetry analysis
Analysis of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Dis Nigeria Sef
Dis Nigeria Sef is the longest poem in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Songs in a Time of War. This poem does not belong among the war poems; the writer acknowledges in one of his memoirs that it was written in 1977, long… Read More ›