{"id":6229,"date":"2026-02-08T23:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/?post_type=writer&#038;p=6229"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:29:56","slug":"ogaga-ifowodo","status":"publish","type":"writer","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/ogaga-ifowodo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogaga Ifowodo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ogaga Ifowodo, a lawyer, has previously published five collections: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Homeland &amp; Other Poems<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which in manuscript won the 1993 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) poetry prize; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madiba<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, winner of the ANA\/Cadbury poetry prize; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Oil Lamp<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which won the ANA\/Gabriel Okara poetry prize and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Good Mourning<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Augusta\u2019s Poodle<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which were nominated for the NLNG Nigerian literature prize. His poems have been widely published in several anthologies and literary journals across the world, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presence Africaine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voices from all Over: Poems with Notes and Activities<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Times Literary Supplement<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poetry International<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Massachusetts Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crazyhorse<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dalhousie Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atlanta Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mantis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Migrations (an Afro-Italian anthology selected by Wole Soyinka)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Excerpts from his detention memoirs which is in progress have been included in the anthologies <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NW 14: The Anthology of New Writing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as well as in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vanguard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the online magazine African Writing. His scholarly study, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">History, Trauma, and Healing in Postcolonial Narratives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was published by Palgrave Macmillan. He is a recipient of the PEN USA Barbara Goldsmith Freedom-to-Write Award and of the Poets of All Nations (Netherlands) \u201cFree Word\u201d Award. He is an honorary member of the PEN centres of the USA, Canada and Germany and a fellow of the Iowa Writing Programme. In proof of Shelley\u2019s declaration that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, he lost his bid for the Nigerian House of Representatives in 2015 and for a seat in the Delta State House of Assembly in 2021!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6230,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"writer_category":[],"writer_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6229","writer","type-writer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thb-post-share-style1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ogaga Ifowodo - Masobe Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/ogaga-ifowodo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ogaga Ifowodo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ogaga Ifowodo, a lawyer, has previously published five collections: Homeland &amp; 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