Book Review: Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo: Mixed Legacies. Poems (2013-2018)

Abstract

Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is an accomplished academic; one of the few Nigerian female writers whose creative writing combines with public speaking and scholarship to cover practically all genres of literature – prose fiction (the novel and short story), drama, poetry, children’s literature, etc. A teacher per excellence and recipient of multiple awards and international scholar, Ezeigbo is probably one of the most prolific authors in present-day Nigeria: her children’s books alone amount to 26 publications. She also has to her credit 5 novels, 8 poetry collections including Mixed Legacies, 2 plays and about 9 non-fiction books. Adimora-Ezeigbo is a professor of English, currently teaching at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.