Romanus N. Egudu

Romanus N. Egudu is a Nigerian poet and scholar. He published poetry in Transition Magazine in the 1960s while undertaking graduate studies in English Literature at Michigan State University. He has held teaching positions at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and the University of Benin, where he headed the English department. Egudu is notable for his work in West African and Igbo poetry. Alongside Donatus Nwoga, he compiled and translated Igbo poetry, published as Poetic Heritage: Igbo Traditional Verse in 1971.