IMOMOTIMI: ANTHOLOGY FOR GABRIEL OKARA

Title: IMOMOTIMI
Author: KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON (EDITOR)
Genre: POETRY
No. of Pages: 80
Year: 2019

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Imomotimi, is an 80-page anthology of poems and an essay in honour of the late Nigerian poet Pa Gabriel Imomotimi Okara who died on Monday 25th March 2019 aged 97. ‘Imomotimi’, which is Pa Okara’s middle name, is an Ijaw word meaning ‘stay with me’.

GABRIEL OKARA (born Gabriel Imomotimi Okara on 24 April 1921) was a Nigerian poet and a novelist who was born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.  He died on Monday 25^th March 2019 aged 97.