Okike: An African Journal of New Writing, Number 5, June 1974
Amherst, Massachusetts: Okike, 1974. Issue five of this influential Afrocentric literary journal founded and edited by the celebrated Nigerian novelist and poet, Chinua Achebe. Achebe published the first issue in April 1971 at the end of the Nigerian civil war and published the first three issues in Enugu, Nigeria. In 1972, he was offered a visiting professorship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he continued the journal until returning to Nigeria in 1976. It was irregularly published until Achebe’s retirement in 1981 and has continued to be published (at least until 2020) following his death in 2013.
This issue features contributions from Rasheed A. Gbadamosi, Kofi Awoonor, Stanley Macebuh, Samuel Allen, Rhonda Mills, John Munonye, John Pauker, Dudley Randall, Ossie Onuora Enekwe, Joseph Bruchac, Chinweizu, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Martin Tucker, Anne Nwokoye, and Obiora Udechukwu.
Perfect-bound (9” x 6”), illustraed front cover, 85 pp., illustrated. A near fine copy. Item #15564
Price: $95.00