“An old star departs,
leaves us here on the shore, gazing heavenward for a new star approaching. The
new star appears, foreshadows its going, before a going and coming that goes on
forever…”
— Christopher Okigbo, in Path of Thunder
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| *Okigbo |
At the time Christopher Okigbo wrote the poem shortly before his
death in 1967, the young republic had writhed in a series of setbacks dating
from the Western Region upheavals. Okigbo had a keen mind that correctly interpreted these crises as the shadows
of some bigger, more devastating whirlwind into which we were being drawn.
