Ihechukwu Madubuike as poet: A study of sequences: A collection of poems

Abstract

is common knowledge that most good critics are not good writers. When they try to write they emerge worse than the writers they have so scathingly criticized. Ihechukwu Madubuike has been one of the unsparing critics of African poets as evident • in the highly anthologized Toward the Decolonisation of African Literature which he co-authored. After a very long waiting by scholars across the continent, of a sustained and full length collection from him in which he was expected to exemplify his pontifications for the African poet, Sequences: A Collection of Poems has emerged. This essay, therefore, examines the collection in order to ascertain whether the critic has been able to practicalise his prescriptions for African poetry and to establish whether or not the critic is also a poet.