One of such writers is Emmanuel Orobosa Oronsaye. Emmanuel Oronsaye is a retired career senior civil servant (he retired as the second Clerk of the Edo State Assembly) who has ventured into the business and enterprise of writing. So also is the poem “My Father’s Jug,” the poem which gives his second book of poems its name. But My Father’s Jug, as Oronsaye states in his preface, is a collection written specifically for primary and secondary school pupils and students. The mood Oronsaye expresses in My Father’s Jug of forty-four poems is the adult mood of his generation.

Source: The Guardian February 04, 2018 03:45 UTC