"Okoro crafts his poems to share his visions and location with a level of nuance and subtlety that is unique and refreshing in African literary history and imagination. By refashioning the traditional robes of poetic style, the author broaden the spaces of everyday life and explores a range of the African life and the contemporary social change and political issues affecting African experience on the continent and its diaspora. Thus, through themes of the environment, globalization, and migration, and a style nuanced by overtones that connects the broader perspectives of human reality, Okoro deploys an intricate poetic style informed by the natural musicality of language and sound to guides the reader to navigate through marvels of African literature to gain insights into the very essence of human existence. These poems are, indeed, a timeless testimony to human history." - Lupenga Mphande, PhD (Scholar-Poet), Professor of African Languages & Literature Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. "Listening to Dike Okoro's poems off the page of his latest volume you are immediately enshrouded into his world. It's a world full of wistful dreams for a non-geographic fatherland. More acutely, his entire yearnings and observations pierce through from a motherland, a motherland of the soul.

He is a socially engaged poet with a gift of the absence of hectoring. In his work, a truckload of realism leavened with economic flights of magic, of breathing and smelt and felt earth, of musical genesis for indeed music is his true gifts. You hear spasmic echoes of the late Jewish master of verse Yehuda Amichai, locked in a riddim beat dialogue with Newk, also known as Sonny Rollins. A conversation, like almost everything about Okoro, held under starlit African skies. That smell of grilled fish, weirdly unspiced, thus lacking affectation, you sniff off his pages, is the smell of the Caribbean, of America, of parts of the Africa across the tides of history to a continent with its eyes fixed on a past future. Dig him. If only fer ya sanity." - Bongani Madondo, Author of Sigh the Beloved Country and Poetry Critic at the Johannesburg Review of Books.