Abubakar Ibrahim, popularly known by the moniker “Imam of Poets”, is a Nigerian poet and visual artist from New Bussa, a “sleepy” town in Niger State, North Central Nigeria. He holds a BSc in Biology from Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.
Movement at the edge of your vision — maybe a man, maybe a shadow. You hold your breath. The darkness folds around you.
Gabriel Okara’s The Fisherman’s Invocation is not merely a collection of poems; it is a haunting voyage into the turbulent waters of memory, colonial disillusionment, and the spiritual ache of a people searching for balance between the ancestral and the modern.