Elechi Amadi
, 1934 - 2016
Elechi Amadi is a famous Nigerian author. He studied physics and mathematics at Government College, Umuahia, and the University of Ibadan, and served in the Nigerian Federal Army (1963–1966, 1968–1969). In the field of education, he was a science teacher in the mission schools of Oba and Ahoadan from 1935 to 1963 and the Principal of Asa Grammar School in 1967. In public administration, he was Administrative Officer from 1970 to 1974 and Permanent Secretary from 1975 to 1983 in the government of Rivers State, Port Harcourt. At one time he was an employee of the Nigerian ministry of information. He is best known for novels such as Concubine (1966), The Great Ponds (1969), The Slave (1978), Isiburu (1973), Sunset in Biafra (1973), Peppersoup and the Road to Ibadan (1977), Estrangement (1986), and The Woman of Calabar (2002). In a moving tribute to him, Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka said the following: "a soldier and poet, captive of conscience, human solidarity and justice.” He received the International Writers Program grant, University of Iowa, in 1973; and the Rivers State Silver Jubilee Merit award, in 1992.
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Profile at biography.jrank.org (accessed: June 4, 2019).
Bio prepared by Divine Che Neba, University of Yaoundé 1, nebankiwang@yahoo.com and Sarah Nalova Mongoh, University of Yaoundé 1, sarahnalova@gmail.com
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