Garuba Tributes

 

Retrieving Africa’s Order of Knowledge: Harry Garuba and Animist Epistemology

Prologue: Chanting What is Lost

After his first collection of poems, Shadow and Dream and Other Poems (1982), it took the reluctant poet, Harry Garuba, another thirty-five years to … Read the whole text

The De-Parture of Wahala: For Harry

Wẹ́lẹ́ wẹ́lẹ́ l’òjò alẹ́ ò
Wẹ́lẹ́ wẹ́lẹ́ l’òjò
Wẹ́lẹ́ wẹ́lẹ́ l’òjò ńrọ̀
Wẹ́lẹ́ wẹ́lẹ́ l’òjò
Gently falls the tears of the orphan
Rolling down the cicatrized cheeks
Gently, achingly
Gently drums the smile of … Read the whole text

 

Go Gently into that Good Night, Harry

Graham Huggan

Harry was just 61 when he passed away, which is my current age, and like all those lucky enough to have known him I acutely feel his loss. Over the … Read the whole text

 

Harry’s Crew

As a young man and throughout his eventful life, Harry Garuba was a quietly charismatic figure who formed relationships with many life-long friends and with people who were oftentimes more colourful than he was.

In the bloom … Read the whole text