- 0 - A Skeletal Review of Wole Soyinka’s poem, “Ogun Abibiman” Muhammad Muhsin Ibrahim Department of English and Literary Studies, Bayero University, Kano muhsin2008@gmail.com 13 th September 2012 Abstract Wole Soyinka is both the most celebrated and the most criticized African literary writer. He has been an enigma, especially for his multiple, often confusing and contradicting viewpoints, and for his use of an intriguingly complex diction. “Ogun Abibiman” is one of such. He, though a giant Euro-modernist figure, attempts to spurn the Western induced idea of “Africa”, even the name. He further condemns, in its totality, the inhuman policy of Apartheid experienced by Black South Africans; and call on the entire Black World to come back home and take on their gods in what is called “return-to-roots” campaign. This paper sheds some light on the first portion of the aforementioned poem.