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Happy 80th birthday to Professor Wole Soyinka!

July 13, 2014.Reading time less than 1 minute.

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Gabriel Okara RIP Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (24 April 1921 – 25 March 2019) was a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The first Modernist poet of Anglophone Africa, he is best known for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964), and his award-winning poetry, published in The Fisherman's Invocation (1978) and The Dreamer, His Vision (2005). In both his poems and his prose, Okara drew on African thought, religion, folklore and imagery, and he has been called "the Nigerian Negritudist". According to Brenda Marie Osbey, editor of his Collected Poems, "It is with publication of Gabriel Okara's first poem that Nigerian literature in English and modern African poetry in this language can be said truly to have begun." - Wikipedia

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Gabriel Okara RIP Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (24 April 1921 – 25 March 2019) was a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The first Modernist poet of Anglophone Africa, he is best known for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964), and his award-winning poetry, published in The Fisherman's Invocation (1978) and The Dreamer, His Vision (2005). In both his poems and his prose, Okara drew on African thought, religion, folklore and imagery, and he has been called "the Nigerian Negritudist". According to Brenda Marie Osbey, editor of his Collected Poems, "It is with publication of Gabriel Okara's first poem that Nigerian literature in English and modern African poetry in this language can be said truly to have begun." - Wikipedia

Once Upon a Time - Gabriel Okara Once upon a time, son, they used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes: but now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-block-cold eyes search behind my shadow. There was a time indeed they used to shake hands with their hearts: but that’s gone, son. Now they shake hands without hearts while their left hands search my empty pockets. ‘Feel at home!’ ‘Come again’: they say, and when I come again and feel at home, once, twice, there will be no thrice- for then I find doors shut on me. So I have learned many things, son. I have learned to wear many faces like dresses – homeface, officeface, streetface, hostface, cocktailface, with all their conforming smiles like a fixed portrait smile. And I have learned too to laugh with only my teeth and shake hands without my heart. I have also learned to say,’Goodbye’, when I mean ‘Good-riddance’: to say ‘Glad to meet you’, without being glad; and to say ‘It’s been nice talking to you’, after being bored. But believe me, son. I want to be what I used to be when I was like you. I want to unlearn all these muting things. Most of all, I want to relearn how to laugh, for my laugh in the mirror shows only my teeth like a snake’s bare fangs! So show me, son, how to laugh; show me how I used to laugh and smile once upon a time when I was like you.

Happy birthday my mentor! The one who set me off on the path to fulfill my dreams..... I will never forget. I know you have also impacted so many peoples lives the same way! May God bless you!!! Happy birthday uncle Soni Irabor @iraborsoni ♥️

#throwbackeveryday ”Jaja Anucha Wachuku was a Pan-Africanist and a globally distinguished Nigerian statesman. He was the first African, Gold medallist, Laureate in Oratory of the Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He was fully involved in Nigeria's constitutional conferences and struggle for independence from Great Britain. He was the first Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, the first Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the first Nigerian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. It was said that his and others intervention saved Nelson Mandela from the death penalty at the 1963–64 Rivonia Trial. Despite this SINGLE picture, Time magazine described him as "Nigeria's dynamic U.N. Ambassador" – stating that because of his worthy, very lively and enthusiastic diplomatic style with a lot of energy, wisdom and determination; "Nigeria, less than two months after winning its independence, is on its way to becoming one of the major forces in Africa." We often talk about the virtues of our past leaders especially from the first republic eg.Tafawa Balewa , T.O.S Benson, Mbazulike Amechi. He was one of those leaders, so why the personal attack? Especially when you don't actually know who he is ? He was fearless and didn't give a damn about what others thought as long as it was right. The foreign press often commended Wachuku for his outright fearless utterances especially when he lambasted the Eastern and Western Blocs for not ending their differences and quarrels. Under Wachuku's leadership at the United Nations, both the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Police Force made their début in International Peacekeeping – under the auspices of the World Organization. Yes, we post historical images but, with just enough information to encourage you to do some further research if you please, especially if you want to use the subject of the picture as a joke

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