Afam akeh biography in tamil

Afam akeh biography wikipedia Thus, the angry and thunderous voices of the generation of poets that witnessed the literary evolution of Niyi Osundare, Odia Ofeimun, Olu Oguibe, Afam Akeh, Remi Raji, Jumoke Verissimo etc. reflect in the works of the emerging nigerian writers.

             

Afam Akeh; Two Poems

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A graduate of the University of Ibadan, Afam Akeh has fought two career currents for much of his life: the tussling rivers of Poetry and Literary Criticism.

Concerning the first, his poetry has won awards: there was his 2nd prize in the BBC Arts for Africa Competition back in That was for his Poem, Nectar, published in Fate of Vultures and other Poems, (Heinemann). Concerning the second, he has worked in Lagos as Editor of the Times Literary Supplement on the staff of the Nigerian Daily Times.

He continues to write poetry and criticism. He has two poems on this page. The second , a whimsical deconstruction of the 'Great' in Great Britain, looks back at the last decade of his UK sojourn; the first , Mid Year Blues, looks further back to his Lagos days, when the casual opening of the spigot in the skies would shift Lagos' lagoons onto her streets Mid Year Blues was anthologised in Fate of Vultures.

 

Mid Year Blues .

Afam akeh biography Afam Akeh is a poet, essayist and editor of. I’ll introduce him as Enoregbe, a name I derive from his real names. He was an early lesson on mortality and the fragility of human relationships.

Every rain, every rain,
the water flushes the guts of Lagos
and writes a poem of pain.
Each grim sight festers in its pool
until the moments bow in shame
and the streets are floods of errors
waiting to be drained.
The feet select their steps,
recoil from mud, deny their guilt.


The eyes searching the wetness
are pregnant with the absent sun.
The nation tells her tale.
Each great wind echoes the dream
until in the drenched moments
there is a thirst for sunlight,
and in the air a lament is born
for the prosperous paths not taken.

© Afam Akeh

 

Britain is a great country

      

 

 

 

  

Britain is a Great Country

Britain is a great country.

Afam akeh biography in english

Afam Akeh is a poet, essayist and editor of. I’ll introduce him as Enoregbe, a name I derive from his real names. He was an early lesson on mortality and the fragility of human relationships.


Britain is greater than England and Scotland.
Britain is size and also history,
green English country and colourful London.
The River Thames washes all with equal profit.
Britain is the English language at large
learning to speak itself properly,
sampling alien vowels, coping with exotic curries.


Britain is dogs, horses, cats,
so many classes of polite animals..
Britain is also other people's lives,
homeland of reference for their pleasure and pain,
some of the sports they've grown to love,
much of the politics that divides them.
Brittish life is a global brand,
British wealth a commonwealth.

Afam akeh biography in urdu Afam Akeh: That early career publication enabled by the grace of Odia Ofeimun and the Association of Nigerian Authors really came to me as a bonus. A number of us who were published then, and that would include the poet Uche Nduka, were having a lot of fun with poetry, reading voraciously and writing with just as much enthusiasm and excitement.


Accommodation is British, inclusion is British.
Britain is a great country.

© Afam Akeh

    

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