Ogaga Ifowodo

Ogaga Ifowodo, PhD., is a college professor, poet and author of The Oil Lamp, Madiba, Homeland and History, Trauma, and Healing in Postcolonial Narratives. A popular columnist, lawyer, activist, and frontline member of the Civil Liberties Organisation during Nigeria’s worst military years, he was detained in the late 1990s by the dictator Sani Abacha. Dr. Ogaga Ifowodo received his MFA and PhD. from Cornell University.
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