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The Christopher Okigbo Collection: From Family Heritage to Public Archive

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Obiageli Okigbo  and
Sofia Dati
Obiageli Okigbo
Affiliation:
Christopher Okigbo Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Sofia Dati
Affiliation:
Christopher Okigbo Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
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This cyclical passage described by Christopher Okigbo in Elegy for Alto constitutes the core of the process of transmission that characterises the cycle of life, death and rebirth. After the poet's disappearance in 1967, the flame of his art and life still burns in our memories and outlives him through our committment to his legacy. Christopher Okigbo was born in 1932 in Ojoto, East Nigeria. The colonial context in which he was immersed at Government College, Umuahia shaped his work as much as the traditions of Igbo culture that were passed on to him by his maternal lineage.

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Research Article
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African Research and Documentation , Volume 133: Papers from SCOLMA Conference 2018: Things come together? Literary archives from, in and for Africa, University of Birmingham, 10 September, 2018 , 2018 , pp. 20 - 32
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Copyright © International African Institute 2018

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