Pan-Africanism, the root of his poetic journey;
Sorting through life’s abundant milieu;
To collect reasoning behind damning calamities;
And present in a folkloric, balladic pieces;
John was his name till he was fully conscious;
Politically, radically and socially he conjures;
Through the minds and bodies of the sojourned;
To continue in the spirit of the big gems;
The Singing Net; The Oath of the Fontonfrom; Logorligi Logarithms;
Freedom Symphony; Mandela the Spear; Flowerfall;
And for children;
The Anthill In the Sea; A Slim Queen In A Palanquin; A Pawpaw On A Mango Tree;
And many others make Atukwei Okai a legendary poet.
Poets’ Poet
Ismail Akwei 