Dike Okoro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1114690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dike Okoro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dike |
| FAMILY NAME | Okoro |
| SIGNATURE | OKORO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harris–Stowe State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o (review)
Futurism and the African Imagination
"This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the intersection of African diaspora culture with technology, science and science fiction. However, this book argues that literature and other arts within Africa has always reflected on themes of futurism, across diverse forms of speculative writing (including sc…
Etheridge Knight’s Prison Poetry
Etheridge Knight’s value to the African American literary tradition and the Anglo-American literary canon extends beyond his legacy as a preeminent voice associated with the Black Arts Movement. In his books of poetry, The Essential Etheridge Knight and Poems from Prison, published while he was an inmate at Indiana State Prison, Knight employs language, themes, characters, and spaces that do not only locate places and liberating identities within…
Salutation to the Idiot
Salutation to the Idiot Dike Okoro (bio) After Dani Alves, who picked up a banana thrown by a racist fan (Barcelona versus Villareal, 2014) To make the foul-mouthed soccerfan trapped in racist tiraderethink the stupidity in monkeychants, you picked up a bananathrown at your feet, peeled it openand took a bite, uninterestedin the petrified red-faced protesterhurling insults while youkicked the stationary ball,watched it fly away, beforerunning dow…
Greetings from Grandpa
Driven by a true sense of generosity, María, with the help of a friend, repeatedly hides babies under her blue nurse’s cape and takes them out of the hospital to give them up for safe adoption. Soon, however, she is suspected by the Gestapo, but in order to maintain her façade of neutrality, she continues to throw lavish parties that often include important members of the German military. When the war ends, María, broke and no longer able to supp…
Contemporary African Literature
78 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY reviews a member (by her admission) until 1940. Her naïveté and hypocrisy in politics seem not to have bothered her. In the 1960s she joined the public outcry against the Soviet show trials that sentenced two dissident writers to hard labor for criticizing the regime. She had done the complete opposite in 1938, when she signed a statement supporting the Moscow trials that condemned several writers to death. Her reputatio…
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Contemporary African Literature
78 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY reviews a member (by her admission) until 1940. Her naïveté and hypocrisy in politics seem not to have bothered her. In the 1960s she joined the public outcry against the Soviet show trials that sentenced two dissident writers to hard labor for criticizing the regime. She had done the complete opposite in 1938, when she signed a statement supporting the Moscow trials that condemned several writers to death. Her reputatio…
Greetings from Grandpa
Driven by a true sense of generosity, María, with the help of a friend, repeatedly hides babies under her blue nurse’s cape and takes them out of the hospital to give them up for safe adoption. Soon, however, she is suspected by the Gestapo, but in order to maintain her façade of neutrality, she continues to throw lavish parties that often include important members of the German military. When the war ends, María, broke and no longer able to supp…
Salutation to the Idiot
Salutation to the Idiot Dike Okoro (bio) After Dani Alves, who picked up a banana thrown by a racist fan (Barcelona versus Villareal, 2014) To make the foul-mouthed soccerfan trapped in racist tiraderethink the stupidity in monkeychants, you picked up a bananathrown at your feet, peeled it openand took a bite, uninterestedin the petrified red-faced protesterhurling insults while youkicked the stationary ball,watched it fly away, beforerunning dow…
Etheridge Knight’s Prison Poetry
Etheridge Knight’s value to the African American literary tradition and the Anglo-American literary canon extends beyond his legacy as a preeminent voice associated with the Black Arts Movement. In his books of poetry, The Essential Etheridge Knight and Poems from Prison, published while he was an inmate at Indiana State Prison, Knight employs language, themes, characters, and spaces that do not only locate places and liberating identities within…
Futurism and the African Imagination
"This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the intersection of African diaspora culture with technology, science and science fiction. However, this book argues that literature and other arts within Africa has always reflected on themes of futurism, across diverse forms of speculative writing (including sc…
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o (review)
Art (5 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Poetry (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works)