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Since I Will Die Tomorrow

Since I Will Die Tomorrow

by Opeyemi Omolere

Since I will die tomorrow offers an unflinching portrait of the Nigerian condition and its echoes across the wider African continent. Moving from the streets of Lagos to the quiet interiors of Kogi, the contemplative stretches of Awka, the power corridors of Abuja, and the tense edges of Maiduguri, the poems trace the uneasy endurance with which ordinary lives absorb public failure. Engaging power, political apathy, womanhood, and the aftermath of migration, the poems speak in a voice that is at once personal and collective. Inflected with Yoruba philosophical thought and the cadences of oral tradition, the poems stand at the meeting point of modern witness and ancestral memory, where language becomes exacting and quietly insistent. A daring debut, Since I Will Die Tomorrow announces a formidable new voice in contemporary African poetry.

₦8,500

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Since I will die tomorrow offers an unflinching portrait of the Nigerian condition and its echoes across the wider African continent. Moving from the streets of Lagos to the quiet interiors of Kogi, the contemplative stretches of Awka, the power corridors of Abuja, and the tense edges of Maiduguri, the poems trace the uneasy endurance with which ordinary lives absorb public failure. Engaging power, political apathy, womanhood, and the aftermath of migration, the poems speak in a voice that is at once personal and collective. Inflected with Yoruba philosophical thought and the cadences of oral tradition, the poems stand at the meeting point of modern witness and ancestral memory, where language becomes exacting and quietly insistent. A daring debut, Since I Will Die Tomorrow announces a formidable new voice in contemporary African poetry.