Popular novelist and playwright Elechi Amadi, best known for his famous work, The Concubine, is dead. He was aged 82. The writer, who is considered among the giants of African literature, died in the ...

Renowned novelist Elechi Amadi, who was a former member of the Nigerian Armed Forces, died on June 29. Born on May 12 1934 in Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, he was author of ...

Adi Wali is a writer, a humanist, someone who has dedicated all his life to literature. A great advocate of literature as a means to greatness, he was so close to the late Elechi Amadi, author of The ...

Professor Wole Soyinka, has described the late Elechi Amadi as “a soldier and poet, captive of conscience, human solidarity and justice.” Many prominent figures have paid tribute to Elechi Amadi, the ...

He died on Wednesday, June 29, 2016, at the Good Heart hospital in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. Vanguard reports that Wabueze Amadi, a member of the poet’s family confirmed that he died around 3:45pm.