“Woman of a Woman”: Sixty pages of glorious poetry, By Syl Cheney Coker

Some of Funke Awodiya’s poems have a lyrical beauty that reminds me the early Leopold Sehghor, extolling the beauty of African women, as in ‘Femne Noir.” Her lines have the colours and resonance of that Negritude poet, without the declamation of heritage; which, in this poet’s case, is almost a tota