OzikoroOkigbo at Makerere: Poetry, Power, and the CIA’s Cultural Cold War
A na-agba ọsọ ndụ, ma onye na-agba ọsọ n’ezie, bụ onye maara ebe ọ na-aga(In the race of life, only he who knows his destination truly runs). The Stage at Makerere, 1962 In June 1962, the Makerere Writers’ Conference in Kampala gathered the brightest young minds of a newly decolonized Africa. Among them stood a…