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Christopher Okigbo - English
URL: http://echeruo.syr.edu/okigbo/okigbobio.htm

Christopher Okigbo's first poems were published in Horn, the student literary journal where J. P. Clark-Bekederemo was Editor-in-Chief. However, it was the publication of his verses in the Black Orpheus magazine in 1962, which gained him his first recognition. In the same year he also published a collection entitled Heavensgate and a long poem in Transition, the Ugandan magazine published in Kampala.

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Christopher Okigbo: The Fallen Bard - English
URL: http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/nigeria/okigbo/3.html

Christopher Okigbo, known by critics and contemporaries as a "poet of destiny," espoused the romantic notion of poetry that the poet "is no ordinary mortal but a divinely inspired artist, a possessed performer through whom hidden truths of the spirit are revealed and through whose influence mankind undergoes regeneration and spiritual rebirth. The poet, in the romantic tradition, functions severally as priest, prophet, and legislator for mankind, as a man speaking to other men with a voice of moral authority strengthened by heightened sensibility. He is a man imbued with an understanding and suffering soul, a kind of a god."

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Author Christopher Okigbo, from the Oldpoetry Poetry Archive - English
URL: http://oldpoetry.com/authors/Christopher%20Okigbo

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Christopher lfekandu Okigbo was born on August 16, 1932 in Ojoto, eastern Nigeria, which was still under British colonial rule at that time. He was the fourth child of Chief James Okoye Okigbo (a pioneer Catholic schoolmaster and Mrs Anna Onugwalobi Okigbo.

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Christopher Okigbo and these times - English
URL: http://www.kwenu.com/publications/ekwe-ekwe/okigbo_times.htm

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Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

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Christopher Okigbo: An Overview - English
URL: http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/nigeria/okigbo/okigboov.html

Christopher Okigbo: The Fallen Bard Nostradamus? ("Elegy for Alto") "Poet of Destiny"

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The Trial of Christopher Okigbo - Ali A. Mazrui - English
URL: http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/nigeria/okigbo2.htm

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Trial of Christopher Okigbo by Ali A. Mazrui.

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Christopher Okigbo --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia - English
URL: http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?eu=298220&query=mythology&ct=%22ebi%22

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The Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo died in 1967 while fighting for the independence of Biafra from Nigeria. Yet in his poetry he was not political. He had a strong literary and classical background that led him to shun African literary traditions in order to create verses that were carefully crafted but often obscure.

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MSN Encarta - Okigbo, Christopher - English
URL: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761589903/Okigbo_Christopher.html

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Okigbo, Christopher (Litteraturnettet) - Norwegian
URL: http://www.litteraturnettet.no/o/okigbo.christopher.asp?lang=&type=

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Christopher Okigbo - English
URL: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/okigbo.htm

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Nigerian poet who wrote in English. Okigbo died in the civil war in Nigeria, fighting for the independence of Biafra. His difficult but suggestive and prophetic poems show the influence of modernist European and American poetry, African tribal mythology, and Nigerian music and rhythms. "Prophetic, menacing, terrorist, violent, protesting - his poetry was all of these," S.O. Anozie wrote in Christopher Okigbo: Creative Rhetoric (1972).

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