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COPYRIGHT 2008 Indiana University Press
Of Minstrels and Masks:
The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian Writing
ED. CHRISTINE MATZKE, ADEREMI RAJI-OYELADE,
AND GEOFFREY V DAVIS.
Matatu 33.
370 pp.
This marvelous collection is a fitting tribute to a career of uncommon importance and a personality of great distinction. Until his untimely death on Tuesday, October 25, 2005, from liver cancer, in Cambridge, England, Ezenwa-Ohaeto-a wellknown home-based Nigerian scholar, teacher, pioneer of pidgin poetry, essayist, and performance artist, in a career that spanned nearly three decades-placed several articles and book reviews in nearly every one of the major journals in our field and wrote the unforgettable Achebe biography. At the time of his death he was at work on a supplementary Soyinka biography. Yet his institutional affiliations did not include any among the then elite universities of Nigeria with vast research facilities (University of Ibadan, Ahmadu Bello University, Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, University...
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