Isidore Okpewho Quotes

1941–2016

Isidore Okpewho, NNOM (9 November 1941 – 4 September 2016), was a Nigerian novelist and critic. He won the 1976 African Arts Prize for Literature, and the 1993 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book Africa.

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The hero is simply the ordinary man writ large

It’s common among bards to attribute their powers of storytelling to a divine source (or to someone else). But the tale remains unique

In this way, we are inclined to see the poet more as a slave to a fossilized pattern than as a skillful manipulator of sounds and ideas that continually suggest themselves to his mind in the rather challenging circumstances of his act

Isidore Okpewho’s The Epic in Africa (1979)

Whatever the context in which it originally occurred (whether recreational or religious), repetition was first and foremost a token of the joy of recollection

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Isidore Okpewho (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.