Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Christopher Okigbo
Born: August 16, 1932
Died: 1967 (aged 34)
Bio: Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as an outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the 20th century.