LAGOS OF THE POETS

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To dream big makes great poetry happen. Odia Ofeimun is the unapologetic bearer of grand dreams. In his poem, “Lagos of the Poets”, Lagos for Odia represents an entire cosmos bodying the dreams of a nation and a continent. It is not for nothing that the street guys stress always “come to Lagos and be wise”.

Nobody experiences Lagos without somewhat waxing poetic. Lagos of the Poets, edited by Odia Ofeimun, undertakes a sweep that captures Lagos from the words of Nigeria’s first president Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, the early nationalist Dennis Osadebay, the breakthrough modernist poets such as Gabriel Okara, Wole Soyinka, J.P. Clark, down to the modern days of Niyi Osundare, Uche Nduka, Ogaga Ifowodo, Nduka Otiono, and so on.