Bakandamiya: An Elegy - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Saddiq DzukogiSeries:African Poetry BookPublish date:12/1/2025Pages:114
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496244277ISBN-10:1496244273UPC:9781496244277Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:African, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SCTDE1MGWV
Bakandamiya: An Elegy
Covering more than five hundred years of cultural transformation, Bakandamiya: An Elegy is a book-length epic poem set in northern Nigeria. The poem moves from passages of mythic power to elegant lyricism with remarkable skill, subverting the legend of Bayajidda, a prince from Baghdad whose arrival reshaped the outlook of the Hausas, a Native ethnic group in West Africa. Told in part from a Bori...
Series: African Poetry Book
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496244277ISBN-10:1496244273UPC:9781496244277Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:African, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SCTDE1MGWV
Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet and assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (Nebraska, 2021), winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Julie Suk Award and shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature. His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares,...
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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