Pages: 138

Year: 2019

Category: Literature, Poetry

Dimensions: 229 x 152mm

ISBN:
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White Masks

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About the author

Ebi Yeibo

Educated at Abraka, Ibadan and Owerri, Ebi Yeibo holds a PhD in English
Language and teaches in the Department of English and Literary Studies,
Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State. He is the
author of Of Waters and the Wild (2017), The Fourth Masquerade (2014),
Shadows of the Setting Sun (2012), The Forbidden Tongue (2007), A Song
for Tomorrow
(2003) and Maiden Lines (1997). He was winner of the
ANA/Maria Ajima Prize for Literary Criticism (2018), ANA Poetry Prize
(2014) and the Isaac Boro Prize for Niger Delta Literature (2008). He
was runner-up, ANA Poetry Prize (2017 and 2005) and Pat Utomi Book Prize
for African Literature
(2006); and was listed for the NLNG Nigeria
Prize for Literature
(2017). Ebi Yeibo has also won the ANA Bayelsa
State Poetry Prize
(2008), ANA Delta State Poetry Prize (2003 &
2004) and ANA Oyo State Poetry Prize (2000)., Nigeria. 

Review

“This collection of poetry both reflects and creates attitudes that
we now regard as characteristic of our age – the crisis of nationhood
and the burden of citizenship. Ebi Yeibo’s White Masks
unambiguously exposes the dystopian nightmares of a nation and a
people’s willing detachment from humanity. While some poets of his
generation are content with dreaming of an ideal world, in White Masks, Yeibo, through the resources of memory, experiments with the idea of a better world
.”

Professor Ogaga Okuyade, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

“…Ebi Yeibo’s White Masks is a collection inspired by hope. In
whichever way it is read, it cannot but invite a political and social
argument. Highly recommended to the discerning reader—to anyone who
takes more than a passing interest in any aspect of modern Nigerian
poetry.”

Professor Hyginus Ekwuazi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

“…In theme, temper, and style, Yeibo reconfigures human experience
in a manner that makes it ethereal. In White Masks, Yeibo charts new
frontiers of human experience in culture, environment, spirituality, and
history, while also foregrounding the nuances that give his earlier
poetry its distinctiveness.”

Professor Sunday Awhefeada, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria