Chukwuma Azuonye, Professor of African and African Diaspora Literatures, University of Massachusetts, Boston

“In Birthcry, Obi Nwakanma offers a subtle, modernist tapestry of symbolic mini-narratives in verse. Covering the entire spectrum of human experience, this is a stunning fusion of transnational mythopoeia and African fabulist threads from Aesop to Achebe”