When it
dawned on me recently that my boss, Odia Ofeimun would turn 70 today, I was
confused. I was confused not because I didn't know what to write about my
master or how to write it but about which one to write on. I asked my humble
self: should I write about the poetry of Odia Ofeimun, or should I write about
Odia Ofeimun's language and philosophy or about Odia Ofeimun and his
aesthetics?
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| *Odia Ofeimun |
Indeed, I was really confused, for it is patently difficult to write about a griot whose life experience cuts across almost all facets of human endeavours. As a polyvalent genius, Odia is grounded in almost all the major contemporary schools of critical theory: from analytic philosophy to reconstructed Marxism, from poststructuralism to postcoloniality, and from feminism to recuperated phenomenology.
