Ezenwa - Ohaeto
Poet
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1959–2005
Nigerian poet and scholar
Ezenwa-Ohaeto was educated at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka and the
University of Benin. The author of several collections of poetry, including Songs
of a Traveller (1986), I Wan Bi President (1988), and Chants of a
Minstrel (2002), Ezenwa-Ohaeto was one of the first Nigerians to publish
poems written in pidgin English, bringing the cadence of a primarily oral
language to the page. He is also the author of Chinua Achebe: A Biography
(1997). His honors include a BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award and the
Association of Nigerian Authors’ Cadbury Poetry Award. A critical overview of
his work, Of Minstrelsy and Masks: The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian
Writing (2007), was edited by Christine Matzke, Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, and
Geoffrey V. Davis.
Ezenwa-Ohaeto died of liver cancer in Cambridge, England, soon after arriving at the University of Cambridge as a visiting fellow in the African Studies Centre.
Ezenwa-Ohaeto died of liver cancer in Cambridge, England, soon after arriving at the University of Cambridge as a visiting fellow in the African Studies Centre.
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