Chin Ce
{{Short description|Nigerian writer}}
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Chin Ce (born in 1966) is a Nigerian writer of poetry, fiction and essays and a graphic editor.
[http://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/chin-ce-complete-volume.-poetry "Chin Ce: Complete Volume. Poetry"], African Books Collective.[http://www.africaresearch.org/handelbooks/authc.htm "Chin Ce"] (author profile), African Books Collective.
Biography
He was educated at the University of Calabar. He is the author of a fiction trilogy, Children of Koloko, Gamji College and The Visitor.{{Cite web|title=Gamji College {{!}} LibraryofBook.com|url=https://www.libraryofbook.com/books/gamji-college|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}
Works
Chin Ce is also the author of three volumes of poetry: An African Eclipse, Full Moon and Millennial.{{Cite web|title=Books Africa - Africaresearch|url=https://www.africaresearch.org/books.htm|website=www.africaresearch.org|access-date=2020-05-28}}
His two volumes of essays, Bards and Tyrants: Essays in Contemporary African Writing and Riddles and Bash: African Performance and Literature Reviews, evaluate some aspects and visions of African writing and criticism in the works of Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Nwoga, Chinweizu, Ernest Emenyonu, Nnolim and other new poetry, prose and critical voices from around the continent.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}
A writer of deep insight and imaginative power,{{Cite web
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Ce's recent work, such as The Dreamer and the Oracle, traverse a far wider dimension of cosmic interdependency, often repeating previous motifs of the religious and political mindlessness which impoverish the African landscape.Ce, Chin, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xgQJAwAAQBAJ "The Dreamer and the Oracle"], Handel Books, 2014. His 2013 work The Oracle honours a shamanistic teacher and storyteller who, with his spiritual double helps to liberate the protagonist from an insidious mind control programme by a dark power that bestrides humanity through several ages of chaos. In The Dreamer, which has been called an ambitious work of fiction, Chin Ce which tries to investigate the nature of human struggle from both internal and external dimensions of conflict and its resolution.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}
Using the narrative mode of third person omniscience in the first part of the story and exploring the dimensions of myth legend and history, Ce tells the story of violence and betrayal in African politics and leadership.
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