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By Naira Chronicles
Kenn Amaechi is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in November 2005. A graduate of the Faculty of Law, University of Maiduguri, he started his legal practice in the prestigious law firm of Falana and Falana before hanging his gown for the banking industry. Mr Amaechi apart from being a lawyer-banker, is a reactionary poet with a focus - to promote societal transformation. Considering that he started out as a science student but later switched to the arts in order to pursue his dreams, Mr Amaechi easily holds out as a man with tenacity to pursue his ambitions.
Mr Amaechi has published two volumes namey, The Echoes of Conscience and The Quest. He promotes good governance in his writings under what he has tagged 'The Change that will Change the Change.' In a chat with NAIRA CHRONICLES ON Monday, January 15, 2018, Mr Amaechi spoke about his drive in the following words:
"My writings have always been reactionary. A kind of conscious response to the issues in my environment. Overtime, I discovered that the reactions and responses are directed towards social, economic and political ills in our society."
"My first published poem (Our Own Bakassi) was in response to unhealthy accommodation system in the University of Maiduguri while I was an undergraduate student there."
" I have written poems that condemn military incursion into politics, political irresponsibility as well as poems that deal with environmental issues. These are all responses to ills that need to be corrected in my country."
"Basically, the inspiration comes from the quest to echo out my voice against socio political and economic misnomer in my society."
"I have come to realise that poetry is nature's gifted tool to me meant to help me project my innate motivations against injustice, promote a fair, just and equitable society where people are evaluated by the content of their character/ability/skills and not the visuals of their ethnicity, religion or sexuality."
ON WHETHER IF HE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY AGAIN HE WOULD OPT FOR LITERARY STUDIES INSTEAD OF LAW....
"The best poets that made meaning to society from their arts are not necessarily from the academic arts background. I think poetry is a gift. However, you need skills to make it better. Literary scholarship is a tool that would have made me a better poet but not a course of study I would have pursued."
Kenn Amaechi is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in November 2005. A graduate of the Faculty of Law, University of Maiduguri, he started his legal practice in the prestigious law firm of Falana and Falana before hanging his gown for the banking industry. Mr Amaechi apart from being a lawyer-banker, is a reactionary poet with a focus - to promote societal transformation. Considering that he started out as a science student but later switched to the arts in order to pursue his dreams, Mr Amaechi easily holds out as a man with tenacity to pursue his ambitions.
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| Kenn Amaechi Jnr, lawyer, banker and poet |
"My writings have always been reactionary. A kind of conscious response to the issues in my environment. Overtime, I discovered that the reactions and responses are directed towards social, economic and political ills in our society."
"My first published poem (Our Own Bakassi) was in response to unhealthy accommodation system in the University of Maiduguri while I was an undergraduate student there."
" I have written poems that condemn military incursion into politics, political irresponsibility as well as poems that deal with environmental issues. These are all responses to ills that need to be corrected in my country."
"Basically, the inspiration comes from the quest to echo out my voice against socio political and economic misnomer in my society."
"I have come to realise that poetry is nature's gifted tool to me meant to help me project my innate motivations against injustice, promote a fair, just and equitable society where people are evaluated by the content of their character/ability/skills and not the visuals of their ethnicity, religion or sexuality."
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| One of the fora provided by Kenn Amaechi to promote societal transformation |
ON WHETHER IF HE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY AGAIN HE WOULD OPT FOR LITERARY STUDIES INSTEAD OF LAW....
"The best poets that made meaning to society from their arts are not necessarily from the academic arts background. I think poetry is a gift. However, you need skills to make it better. Literary scholarship is a tool that would have made me a better poet but not a course of study I would have pursued."
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