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One of the founding generation of African novelists * Guardian * A soldier and poet, captive of conscience, human solidarity and justice -- Wole Soyinka An outstanding work of pure fiction -- Eldred Jones A most accomplished first performance -- Eustace Palmer
Elechi Amadi was a writer and soldier born in 1934 into an Igbo family in Ikwerre, Rivers State, Nigeria. He was educated at the Government College in Umuahia and the University College of Ibadan. The Concubine, published in 1966, was his debut novel and made him an icon of Nigerian literature. Amadi was a prolific writer of poems, plays, novels and essays. Throughout his career, he was writer-in-residence and lecturer at Rivers State College of Education where he was also Dean of Arts, Head of the Literature Department, and Director of General Studies. In 2003, he was made a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; the nation's highest honour. Amadi died in 2016.