Christopher Okigbo: Why Did Nigeria’s Greatest Poet Die Fighting for Biafra?
Christopher Okigbo was one of Africa’s most influential poets of the 20th century. Born in 1932 in Ojoto, southeastern Nigeria, he produced a relatively small body of poetry before his death in 1967. Yet his work earned him a lasting place in African literature. Okigbo’s life was cut short during the Nigerian Civil War, when…