For 10 points, name this Nigerian poet who was killed fighting for Biafran independence.
This man wrote a poem whose title figure is described as being "bright with the armpit-dazzle of a lioness," "Watermaid." Many of his poems make reference to the a deity who dwells in a river, mother Idoto, including "The Passage," which is the opening poem in his collection Heavensgate. The speaker of one of his poems, which was intended to be read "with drum accompaniment," asks mother Earth to unbind him before saying, "let this be my last testament." That poem, "Elegy for Alto," was the final poem in the sequence Path of Thunder. For 10 points, name this Nigerian poet who was killed fighting for Biafran independence.
This man wrote a poem whose title figure is described as being "bright with the armpit-dazzle of a lioness," "Watermaid."
Christopher {Okigbo}