Nigeria's greatest poet, killed at 35 fighting in the Biafran War, left a body of work of extraordinary density and beauty. The poems are simultaneously modernist, rooted in Igbo mythology, and prophetically political. "Path of Thunder" was written just before his death as a kind of premonition. Chinua Achebe called him the finest African poet of his generation. The Labyrinths sequence draws on ritual, Western classical literature, and African oral tradition in equal measure.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.