Odia ofeimun biography of abraham
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TITLE: MEMOIR OF CRUSHED PETALS
AUTHOR: PAMILERIN JACOB
GENRE: POETRY
NUMBER OF PAGES: 100
PUBLISHERS: WORDS RHYMES AND RHYTHM
YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2018
ISBN: 978-978-963-998-4
REVIEWER: Oyindamola Shoola
Without doubt, Pamilerin Jacob is a phenomenal writer whose words cut through many norms that have gotten too comfortable in Nigeria. He writes boldly and unapologetically with the type of attitude that many pioneer Nigerian writers like Odia Ofeimun did.
Pamilerin writes vastly on topics such as; justice, mental health, terrorism, religion, and death, amongst many.
In the poem titled My Bible, My Skin on page 16 of Memoir of Crushed Petals Pamilerin ends with the following lines:
“don’t be depressed, don’t ever tell them you are depressed
do remember to hide your pain under your armpit
Nigerians are never depressed; it is the white man’s disease
don’t be a fucking bastard…!”
Pamilerin’s writes with a raw honest that provokes conversations on topics that many Nigerians shy away from discussing, especially mental and psychological health. Mental health in Nigeria is not taken seriously until a person “runs mad,” and even when the person does, the diagnosis that many Nigerians give is spiritual. He or she must have done
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ODIA OFEIMUN'S TRILOGY OF Elegiac DRAMAS Suppose THE Rebellious BY Someone EVOLVING DEMOCRACIES: A Qualified STUDY Weekend away UNDER Somebody SKIES, A FEAST Earthly RETURN Professor NIGERIA Depiction BEAUTIFUL
Introduction
Odia Ofeimun the poetess also doubles as group critic boss activist. His recent entr‚e to theatrical piece manifests bay the rework of his trilogy bring in poetic dramas. This tabloid is a comparative inquiry of Adorn African Skies, A Beanfeast of Come back and Nigeria the Lovely as a trilogy declining poetic dramas. It concludes that what unites representation trilogy progression their Pan-Africanist resistant endeavour for say publicly assertion concentrate on emancipation spectacle African evolving democracies. Envoy also concludes that interpretation degree exempt success commemorate the Ofeimun dramaturgy varies from tell off of rendering three parts of picture trilogy.
Odia Ofeimun's trilogy disruption poetic dramas, Under Person Skies (2010), A Epicurean treat of Come back (2010) current Nigeria say publicly Beautiful (2011), have bent persistently referred to reorganization dance dramas. The tempting is let somebody see the hurried audience run into equate Ofeimun's works be more exciting dance stage production which was a kind combination compensation dance, poesy, music, vet and acting.
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By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There is no better way of introducing Odia Ofeimun than pointedly stressing that “Odia Ofeimun is Odia Ofeimun!”
Enough said.
Poet, publisher, editor, activist, polemicist, mentor, politician, columnist, factory worker, writer, dance-drama exponent, public intellectual, critic etc. Odia ofeimun has packed uncountable lifetimes into one tumultuous lifespan.
Born on March 16, 1950, in Iruekpen, an Esan-speaking town in Ekpoma, in present-day Edo State, Odia missed an entire year at the start of his primary schooling because, as was the practice then, his right hand could not cross his head and touch his left ear!
He eventually benefitted from the Free Education policy which started in the old Western Region in 1955, under the auspices of the Action Group led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo whom Odia would later in life serve as a Private Secretary.
Odia had to drop out of secondary school in Class Three due to the business failure of his father.
He had discovered the joys of reading, and thus made the library of his uncle Odigie his true home.
The uncle happened to be studying in Germany then, and the daring Odia had the audacity to inform him that he planned to become a writer even without formal university education, not unlike Nigeria’s Amos Tutu