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- W1950037542 abstract "Okigbo’s “Fragments” sequence of poems, also identified as “Limits V-XII” and written in 1962, two years after Nigeria’s independence, and five years after Ghana’s - the very first independent modern African state - portrays him as a visionary poet for more than one reason: it shows that he was an acute observer of his immediate social and political environment, the euphoria of post independence then notwithstanding; it equally gave him out as a committed writer who considered the future of his country as one of his responsibilities as an artist; and finally it depicted him as one who believed that nothing could be as authentic as the autochthonous. The position of this paper is that Okigbo, perhaps more than any of his contemporaries, knew early enough that to lose one’s culture, brutally represented by the decapitation of the gods of the land by European missionaries, would lead to loss of confidence in self and nation, would lead to doubt and cynicism, would lead to a state of aporia. It is argued here that the current climate of despondency from within and from without, the climate of hopelessness, of ennui which pervades African discourse, now referred to as ‘Afro-pessimism’, had its roots in what Okigbo perceived soon after independence as ‘fragments out of the deluge’." @default.
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- W1950037542 title "Christopher Okigbo, Uprooted Culture and The Roots of Afro-Pessimism in His “Fragments Out of The Deluge”" @default.
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