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Elechi Amadi

Died in 2016

Emmanuel Elechi Daniel was born on 12 May 1934 at Mbodo-Aluu, near Port Harcourt, in Ikwerre country, a minority of the delta. After Government College, Umuahia, the surveying school at Oyo and the University of Ibadan, from which he graduated in 1959, he served in the army and wrote novels and plays about village life before the coming of the Europeans. A father of six, decorated with the federal order, he died on 29 June 2016 in Port Harcourt.

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