The poems in this collection showcase the poet as a visionary, traveler, witness, and environmentalist. From his preoccupation against tyranny to his heartfelt reflections on the environment, Dike Okoro situates his work within significant representations of childhood, life, love, ecological concerns, liberation, and reflections (home and abroad) that provide useful insights into the Nigerian/African/American experience in the postcoolnial/world literature.

Ostensibly a murder mystery that crisscrosses Ghana, the US, and China, Chronicles of Four Estates is a thoroughgoing examination of the intersection as well as divergence of politics, business, journalism, and religion in the context of an increasingly interdependent world. A body is found at the Teshie beach in Ghana, stabbed and burned beyond recognition. Indications are that it is Erin Badu, a young, ambitious and successful journalist/musician. Preliminary investigations by the dashing detective, Chloe Cudjoe, point to Yaw Tano an ex-president of Ghana who is running again for president. Haunted by the unsolved murder of her husband several years earlier, Chloe Cudjoe is determined to prove Yaw Tano guilty of murder.

About the Author
The poetry of Tanure Ojaide occupies a significant slot in the foregoing critical scheme. His literary career was launched on the publication of his debut collection Children of Iroko
and Other Poems in 1973 and he is in the frontline in the generation of poets whose voices were first heard after the Nigerian Civil War. Ojaide’s poetry has distinctively evolved in themes and craft over the years to the extent that his oeuvre has become representative of the protean preoccupations of poetry in a postcolonial setting like Nigeria. Ojaide’s poetry provides useful insights into the Nigerian experience through an imaginative arch beginning from the pre-colonial era to the present. The manifold defining essence of his poetry include the Nigerian Civil War, military dictatorship, socio-economic malaise, exile, dislocation, and ecological concerns. His poetical works running into eighteen collections at the last count also excavate indigenous lore and mores of his Urhobo provenance as a means of establishing a contradistinction between the present and the past."
–Sunny Awhefeada

About the Author
The poetry of Tanure Ojaide occupies a significant slot in the foregoing critical scheme. His literary career was launched on the publication of his debut collection Children of Iroko
and Other Poems in 1973 and he is in the frontline in the generation of poets whose voices were first heard after the Nigerian Civil War. Ojaide’s poetry has distinctively evolved in themes and craft over the years to the extent that his oeuvre has become representative of the protean preoccupations of poetry in a postcolonial setting like Nigeria. Ojaide’s poetry provides useful insights into the Nigerian experience through an imaginative arch beginning from the pre-colonial era to the present. The manifold defining essence of his poetry include the Nigerian Civil War, military dictatorship, socio-economic malaise, exile, dislocation, and ecological concerns. His poetical works running into eighteen collections at the last count also excavate indigenous lore and mores of his Urhobo provenance as a means of establishing a contradistinction between the present and the past."
–Sunny Awhefeada