Literary Icon, Elechi Amadi is dead

Educationist, novelist, and dramatist, and author Elechi Amadi has died. He passed yesterday afternoon at a hospital in Port Harcourt. He was aged 82.He was born on 12 May, 1934 in Aluu community, Ikwerre local government area of River state.

The River state government have released a statement mourning his passing.

The late literary icon was  among the first generation of African writers and novelists. Some of his works include The Concubine (1966), The Great Ponds (1969), and The Slave (1978), The Great Ponds, Isiburu, Sunset in Biafra, Dance of Johannesburg, Peppersoup, The Road to Ibadan, The Slave , Estrangement and the Woman of Calabar.