82nd Division [Paperback]

Nigerian poet Aderibigbe chronicles the 82nd West Africa Division, an all-Black unit of soldiers drafted against their will to serve Britain during WWII . . . A poet with an ear for musicality that is both enchanting and sorrowful, Aderibigbe writes at the intersection of West Africa and the West, plotting a vision that is both deeply historical and urgently contemporary. Aderibigbes rendition declares its literary debtsfrom the English soldier-poet Wilfred Owen to the contemporary Black American poet Natasha Tretheweybut its plainspoken musicality and time-traveling correspondences belong to no one but Aderibigbe. Its transcendent, this book, this gift from this observant itinerant, this wandering mind. In With