Professor Ernest N. Emenyonu at a library. Source: Igbostudies.org.
“Okwu bụ ndụ.” (Words are life). The old proverb could well summarise Emenyonu’s life's work. To him, literature was not simply art; it was history, language, and identity woven together like the intricate threads of akwete cloth.
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