Emeka Esogbue

KWUSIKE NIGHT: GUILD OF WRITERS AND AUTHORS CALLS FOR TRIBUTES FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC  - Emeka Esogbue Set to honour Philip Ngozi Ifechukwude-Kwusike, the late Ibusa novelist and poet, with a night of tributes, the Guild of Ibusa Writers and Authors (GIWA), an association of intellectuals from the community is calling for tributes and other forms of presentations from the friends and family of the late writer described as "servant of Ibusa community" by Sir Onyeluka Igbonoba in his tribute.  The post humus honour is coming the way of the author of "Imagine Lagos and Other Stories" as the first official ceremony of the newly formed Guild of Ibusa Writers and Authors under the pioneering leadership of Dr. Henry Obi Ajumeze, a Lecturer with the School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. The event will come up inside the Kefas Hall, Ibusa, Delta State on Saturday, October, 8.  In a message forwarded to the members of the Associat...

Philip Ngozi Ifechukwude is the author of the book, ‘Wild Ixora’. He is also the former Adviser on Media to the former Transition Chairman of Oshimili North Local Government Area, Hon Innocent Esewezie. In this interview with EMEKA ESOGBUE, Associate Editor of Homage, he speaks on Ibusa culture, youth development in the town and bares his mind on others issues that are appropriate to the development of the town. Excerpts. Homage: Finally, light is restored to Ibusa but there seems to be a major obstacle to be surmounted, BEDC claims that not many Ibusa consumers are responding to payments of what is consumed by them and Ibusa natives maintain that they were over billed since there were no prepaid meters in place in the town. As the man on ground in the community, what is your recommendation as a way out? Ifechukwude: Thank you very much Emeka Esogbue. As a matter of fact, the billing system has to be reviewed. Even though BEDC is purely a commercial venture that is very inte...

BOOK REVIEW Title: Wild Ixora Author: Philip Ngozi Ifechukwude Publisher/Year: Carophem/2013 Review by: Emeka Esogbue Date Reviewed: 2015 It is a 136-page novel set in a small community of Isubogu. It beautifully opens with a 6-line poetic prologue, delightfully subdivided into 14 chapters, numbered but untitled. This particular edition has been revised to create clever plot and enhance readability. Chapter one begins with the scintillating description of the atmosphere which in turn foreshadows the surrounding influence of events. The writer discerningly considers this environment naturally suiting to the backdrop therefore, readers are let into the author’s admiration for nature but sadly, nature hardly gives anyone what he desires but what nature itself wishes. Reader’s emotion is again drawn to the physically-challenged state of Agoziem, the protagonist. This state of deformity is in reality, a literary allusion to the author’s present condition as he recal...