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<h4>Title: PETALS OF A WITHERED FLOWER<br>
Author: BAAJI AKURA<br>
Genre: POETRY<br>
No. of Pages: 32<br>
Year: 2019</h4>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><em>Petal of a Withered Flower </em>offers poems that are rich and diverse in their expressions. Baaji tackles, very efficiently, contemporary subjects one would assume are beyond his age.</h5>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">Without doubt, this is a poet who has observed the world, its rotations, and revolutions and the humans who make it their home. His words are unignorably evident of his aliveness.</h5>
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<h5 style="text-align: right;">Baaji Joseph Aondoakura is a 17-year-old writer and poet from Benue State who writes under the pseudonym <em>‘Baaji Akura’</em>. He is currently studying English and Literary Studies at Nasarawa State University, Keffi. Akura discovered his passion for writing in 2016 and has been writing since then. His poem, Ode to Death, was recently published in <strong><em><a href="https://www.wrr.ng/download/imomotimi-anthology-for-okara/">Imomotimi (a collection of poems for Late Pa Gabriel Okara)</a></em></strong>. <strong><em>Petals of a Withered Flower</em></strong> is his first published body of work.</h5>
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