Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Okigbo
Born
Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo

(1932-08-16)16 August 1932
Died1967 (aged 34–35)
OccupationWriter
EducationGovernment College Umuahia; University College Ibadan
GenreDrama, poetry
SubjectComparative literature
RelativesPius Okigbo (brother);
Bede Okigbo (cousin)

Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo Listen (16 August 1932 – 1967) was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is widely acknowledged as an outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the 20th century.