Author: Hyginus Ekwuazi

Acclaimed author, scholar, filmmaker and poet, PROFESSOR HYGINUS EKWUAZI has earned numerous awards in poetry and fiction, as well as several credits in film. He is renowned for his poetry collections among which have won significant prizes including the Association of Nigerian Authors-Cadbury Prize 2007 & 2010; ANA-Gabriel Okara/NDDC Prize 2008; and nominations for the [NLNG] Nigeria Prize for Literature as well as the Soyinka Prize for African Literature 2012.

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Elegy for the Things We’ve Been Through review: Olalekan Ayodele as Poetic Witness to a Nation’s Soul

I once posited elaborately on the position of Skip Gates—I believe—regarding critical canons and the particularity of looking at works. He argues that all works…

Hyginus Ekwuazi August 12, 2025 5 min