The Heresiad
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The Heresiad is a poetry book by Nigerian poet Ikeogu Oke, published by Kraft Books in Nigeria. Oke said in an interview that the book took him 27 years to write. [1][2]
The book won the 2017 Nigeria Prize for Literature.[3] According to the judges, "it employs the epic form in questioning power and freedom" and "probes metaphorically the inner workings of societies and those who shape them".[4]
The Nigeria Review writers Onyebuchi James Ile and Solomon Osekene praised the book's allegorical nature and describes it as the "best poetic piece out of Africa".[5]
Uchenna Ekweremadu's review says that it is the "clarity of the picture and the intensity of the plot that hold the reader spellbound".[6]
