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Born in Calabar, Cross Rivers State of Nigeria, Orok is the CEO of Xecutive Poets International, a non-governmental organisation in Nigeria.

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Moon O’er Cross River: Poems by Alexander Orok

June 30, 2005
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Nigeria’s Oppression Through a side-wind you shall sense them, in a splash of unguarded moonlight, chance scrape of a chair on the floor; down small...

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