Ikeogu Oke Archives

A letter to Ikeogu

I didn’t want to write this week. It wasn’t writer’s block or the occasional frustration from sounding like a broken record. It was not the feeling of speaking to the

Garba Shehu: First time I met Ikeogu Oke, he told me we won’t meet again

Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, says Ikeogu Oke, award-winning poet, saw his death coming. Oke died on November 24 in a hospital in Abuja from an undisclosed ailment. Oke, 51, was a

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OBITUARY: Ikeogu Oke, the exceptional wordsmith who wrote a poem for 27 years

Among the army of poets that Africa boasts of, Ikeogu Oke is one of the new generation wordsmiths whose repertoire of poems will captivate the mind of the most critical

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Ikeogu Oke, award-winning Nigerian poet, is dead

Ikeogu Oke, award-winning Nigerian poet, is dead. TheCable learned that Oke died on Saturday in Abuja. Until his death, he was receiving treatment at the National Hospital, FCT, for a

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