Odia Ofeimun was born in 1950 in Iruekpen-Ekema, Edo State, Nigeria. Ofeimun belongs to the second technology of Nigerian poets – a technology that emerged within the seventies to problem the custom of “apolitical poetry” related to an earlier technology of poets together with, Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo and J. P. Clark-Bekederemo. A graduate of political science from the College of Ibadan, Ofeimun has, through the years, been an energetic member of the Affiliation of Nigerian Authors, the umbrella union of Nigerian writers; he has served at varied instances as its basic secretary and president. Odia Ofeimun has been a member of the editorial board of The Guardian newspaper in Lagos, and Chairman, Editorial Board of The Information and Tempo Journal—exponents of guerrilla journalism throughout the Abacha’s years.

Ofeimun’s tutorial profession as a political scientist and a radical journalist has an incredible affect on his poetry. Proper from his debut work, The Poet Lied, Ofeimun stirs the emergence of socially responsive poetry within the Nigerian context. His social imaginative and prescient is clear within the titles of his poetry collections. Different revealed collections of poems by Ofeimun embody: A Deal with for the Flutist, London Letter and Different Poems, Desires at Work, Below the African Skies: Poems for Dance Drama, A Feast of Return: Poems for Dance Drama, Go Inform the Generals, A Boiling Caracas, I’ll Ask Questions with Stones in the event that they Take my Voice and Nigeria the Stunning: Poems for Dance Drama.

Controversy surrounds the classification of Ofeimun inside a technology of poets. Many students categorized Ofeimun into totally different teams of poets. Notable amongst these classificatory efforts embody the next: an environmental poet, another custom poet, a post-Battle Nigerian poet and most controversially, as belonging to the second and third generations of Nigerian poets. Nonetheless, one factor that’s obvious is the truth that Ofeimun belongs to the identical technology as Niyi Osundare, Tanure Ojaide, Ezenwa Ohaeto, Funso Aiyejina, Okinba Launko (Femi Osofisan), Femi Fatoba amongst others. The controversy which surrounds the technology during which Ofeimun belongs is a matter of perspective. If one acknowledges Azikiwe, Babalola, Osadebay because the pioneers or first technology poets and Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, J. P. Clark-Bekederemo, Gabriel Okara, and so forth as belonging to the second technology, then Ofeimun’s technology is the third. Nonetheless, if Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, J. P. Clark-Bekederemo, Gabriel Okara are seen as the primary, Ofeimun’s technology turns into the ...
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