Pita Nwana

Pita Nwana was born in 1881 in Arondizuogu, in eastern Igbo country, the last of seven children. He had no schooling: he learned to read and write at the Sunday school of the Methodist college at Uzuakoli, where he was employed as a carpenter, and later served as interpreter to the Reverend J. Wood at the Igbo institute. He travelled a great deal and worked for a long time for the British missions as a labourer and as an intermediary, without ever giving up his trade as a carpenter. He died in 1968. A biography in Igbo was devoted to him by his own people in 1999.

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