Come Quick, 2027

I have taken liberties to somewhat adapt the title of the prophetic poem, Come Thunder, written by Christopher Okigbo, one of Nigeria’s most talented first genera­tion poets, as title of this piece. Okig­bo, a contemporary of the Chinua Achebes, Wole Soyinkas, John Pep­per Bekederemo-Clarks, wrote the highly prophetic poem at the time, which was concretely […]