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My grandmother gave me the name Usobunandu, and over the years I have come to realise that indeed, as the name indicates, it is while we are alive that we can show love. Life is not enjoyable when love is lost among relations, friends and acquaintances. Thus many of my poems draw attention to those issues that frustrate this love sharing among the living, particularly the actions of our political
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Human activities inspire me: the madman's chants, the angry mother's howl, the labourer's sweat, the politician's siren, the student's pen, the bereaved's tears, the lover's song. Writing may not be fun, but not to write is much pain, with such great surge of emotions seeking fissures to be expressed.
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Birth Place
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Benin-City, Nigeria
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Accomplishments
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I have written some short stories, but poetry still remains my main medium of literery expression. I have read my poems at different fora and published some in some anthologies. My collection of poems, Fissure for the Turmoil Within, is ready for publication.
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Contact Information
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University of Abuja
Department of English and Literary Studies P. M. B. 117
Abuja
Nigeria
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Contact Author: Uchenna Oyali
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Imagination of Poets
I have some poems published in this anthology
Womanic Verses
This anthology features some of my ruminations on womanhood and feminity
Uchenna Oyali @ allpoetry.com
Here you will find more poems of mine
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