Christopher Okigbo
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| Gender | Male |
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| Date of birth | August 16,1932 |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
| Born | Ojoto |
| Nigeria | |
| Died | Nsukka |
| Nigeria | |
| September 1967 | |
| Nsukka | |
| Nigeria | |
| Siblings | Pius Okigbo |
| Education | Government College Umuahia |
| University of Ibadan | |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Full name | Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo |
| Books | Labyrinths, with Path of thunder |
| Collected poems | |
| Subject | Comparative literature |
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| ID | 780658 |
Christopher Okigbo Life story
Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as an outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the 20th century.
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