[New-Poetry] WorldPo: Nigeria

[TheOldMole]

More on poetry and Nigeria:

http://www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/0607/editorial.htm


and an interview with Obi Nwakanma:

http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/chinua-achebe/2006jul10-chinua-achebe-foundation-oyibo-odinamadu-interview-part-1.html

Emmanuel -- you've published much African Poetry. Your thoughts on these 
poets?

Sigauke, Emmanuel wrote:
> Great argument.
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> http://allafrica.com/stories/200712031006.html
> Nigeria: Writing and the Nation - ANA Prizes and Canon Making
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>  
> Vanguard (Lagos)
> 2 December 2007
> Posted to the web 3 December 2007
> Obi Nwakanma
> Lagos
> TWO weeks ago, the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) concluded its 
> annual convention at Owerri, the heartland city of the East. The 
> various prizes administered by ANA were also announced and the winners 
> proclaimed.
>
> My own collection of poems, The Horsemen & Other Poems was on the 
> shortlist for both the ANA/Cadbury Prize and the ANA/Gabriel Okara 
> Prize. My collection did not win the prizes, both of which went to 
> Hyginus Ekwuazi's Love Apart. I have not read Ekwuazi's winning 
> collection of poems, but I feel certain that it deserves the prizes, 
> and I congratulate Ekwuazi, who has worked mostly in film, but who now 
> has shown his paces as a poet of considerable ability and perhaps even 
> significance.This is what the ANA prizes are all about: the 
> affirmation of the work of the contemporary Nigerian literary 
> imagination, and maintenance of the canon of Nigerian literature. I 
> will come back to the meaning of the Nigerian canon shortly, but I 
> would like to draw attention to developments preceding the 
> announcement of the prize, which for me, and I'm sure for many others, 
> has the potential of detracting from the significance of the Nigerian 
> prize.
>
> This specifically has to do with the poet, Niyi Osundare's sudden 
> withdrawal of his book, one of the three on the shortlist for 
> consideration in the ANA/Cadbury Prize.
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