Echezonachukwu Nduka

Echezonachukwu Chinedu Nduka(born 19 July 1989) is a Nigerian poet, pianist, author, recording artist, and ethnomusicologist specializing in African pianism by West African composers. His work has been featured on BBC, Radio Nacional Clasica de Argentina, Radio France International (rfi), and Classical Journey. Quotes now that the streets are stripped and keys lock themselves in defiance, should nudity blind the eyes of minors? now that the streets are filled with dry tongues and streams dry at daybreak, from whence should spittle flow as fountains? A poem on Renaissance you are a lad whose songs suspend all chaos as every tongue is tempted to test a divisive theory; your lyrics are now dead that lights the lone candle. plucked from thorns—dry are the roses thrown at your feet. yours is a blind eye that tell stories of yesteryear; yet, these stories rename themselves every passing day. a strange cloud fills your head and forms a note: the keeper of this mind has lost his job. go home and await a worthy rebel. I like to think of poems as living beings with traits because while some take very little time to write, others take a while—and sometimes I come away with the feeling that I may never finish a poem. I like to think of poems as living beings with traits because while some take very little time to write, others take a while—and sometimes I come away with the feeling that I may never finish a poem. I would like to talk about how I consider rewriting a poem quite a bit of hard work, but I would rather not. He talks about the process of writing a poem to him. If any of my poems could literarily save a person’s life, I would be most amazed by both the poem and the person whose life it saved. That would be nothing short of a miracle! Complex. Historic. Diverse. Rich. . . Hope. Perseverance. Hallmark of cultural legacies. Revival. Vibrant youth. Poor political leadership. The continent is an overwhelming web of paradoxes. I like to think of Africa as loud drumbeats that keep re-echoing, in spite of efforts to shut off the sound. Africa is not only the dance bank that fascinates the world with each new step, it’s also the fundamental rhythm to which all of the world must connect. He talks about what Africa means to him. Blessed are the undefiled in the way. There are two ways to view the body. Resurrection and crucifixion. Everything that falls between is ritual. He talks about his favourite lines in a poem. "Both worlds were there from the beginning, but music influenced my imagination first as a listener, long before I became a curious reader." Reflecting on his early exposure to music and literature "Whatever I wrote as a child were attempts to recreate what I read and imagined." Speaking on his childhood writing "African pianism is the point where Western classical music and African indigenous music converge." Defining African pianism "The soundscape reassures me of the endless possibilities in classical music and the question of borderless identities." Speaking on African pianism and classical music "I was listening to a lot of jazz music, thinking about Black history, the civil rights movement, and the place of music in the struggle for liberation and preservation of memory." On the inspiration behind his shortlisted poems "The liberation to which I refer is both personal and collective." Reflecting on the themes in his poetry External links Category:1989 births Category:Living people Category:Poets from Nigeria