A great sadness to hear Nnorom Azuonye has passed away. Poet and pastor, founder of Sentinel Quarterly he promoted Nigerian literature for more than 20 years and gave many local poets an encouraging lift with SQL and his quarterly competitions which were the model arrangement of such things. Along the way he published my first submitted poems and then, a few years later, invited and accepted my first manuscript. He put me squarely on the first stepping stones of my poetry writing.
A generous, sympathetic and good man. He could talk alright, and I will miss our conversations.
Nnorom died on 21 January and leaves behind his wife Thelma and four children whom he loved very much.
