Ogaga Ifowodo
Author

Poemas

A Waterscape inglés

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XVIII (from “Odi”) inglés

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XX (from “Odi”) inglés

XXXVIII (from “Ogoni”) inglés

XLV (from “The Pipes War”) inglés

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The Agonist inglés

The Error of His Death inglés

The Böll Haus Welcome inglés

Madiba (sonnet 13) inglés

Madiba (sonnet 14) inglés

Madiba (sonnet 15) inglés

Madiba (sonnet 16) inglés

For Art’s Sake inglés

Homeland inglés

The Earth You Walked to Me inglés

Ogaga Ifowodo
Author

About

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* 14.05.1966, Nigeria
Vive en: , Estados Unidos

Ogaga Ifowodo, poet and writer, studied law at the University of Benin and worked for eight years as a rights activist with Nigeria’s premier non-governmental rights group, the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO).

Ogaga Ifowodo has published three collections of poems: Homeland and Other Poems, Madiba and The Oil Lamp.

His poems have been translated into German, Dutch and Romanian and have been widely published in anthologies and magazines, including Voices from all Over: Poems with Notes and Activities (Oxford, 2006), Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature, (John Wiley, 2000), The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry International, English in Africa, The Massachusetts Review, among others.

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Between 1997 and 1998, he was held under preventive detention by the military regime of General Sani Abacha: a memoir of his prison experience, excerpts from which have been featured in Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing (Heinemann), New Writing 14 (Granta), and at www.african-writing.com is in progress.

With the story, The Treasonable Parot, he recently made his prose fiction debut in AGNI magazine. Ifowodo has been a regular contributor to the op-ed pages of The Guardian of Lagos and other major Nigerian newspapers.

He is a recipient of the PEN USA Barbara Goldsmith Freedom-to-Write Award (1998) and of the Poets of All Nations (Netherlands) Free Word. An honorary member of the PEN centres of the USA, Canada and Germany, he is also a fellow of the Iowa Writing Program.

Trained originally as a lawyer, Ifowodo received a Master of Fine Art and a Ph.D from Cornell University in the USA where he currently teaches poetry and literature at Texas State University.