Konye Obaji Ori
My name is Konye Obaji Ori. I am a Nigerian international student at the University of Indianapolis. I am a student poet, fiction writer and playwright. I have been published in several international magazines and I have had several literary appraisals, as well. I am hoping to be a sounding literary voice of Africa as I intend to wheel a change in the political and Socio-economic scene of things with the voice of my pen. I am hoping to publish my anthology of short stories, plays and poetry, as soon as I get a chance. I write so eyes can run through my words and into a better world.
Entries by this Author
Six Heads and the King's Body - A Short Story by Konye Obaji Ori
- By Konye Obaji Ori
- Published September 11, 2009
- Fiction
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Igwe Odiga had died three full-moons ago and in our part of the world, when a king had a reign as great as he had, six human heads were buried along with him in his honour. It was a grim custom of ours but it was proudly carried out. The heads usually buried along with a chief’s body were often the heads of people from other villages who were unfortunate enough to be caught straying at an ungodly hour or of villagers who were found in the forest all by themselves...
What the Witchdoctors Say - Poems by Konye Obaji Ori
- By Konye Obaji Ori
- Published July 18, 2009
- Poetry
- Unrated
I am from the bowels of Africa,I understand the tongue of the wild.
I have swayed to the blue songs of humming birds that fill the
tree branches with their nests.
I have had breakfast plucked ripe off the tree...