CHUKWU SOLOMON Nigerian premier novelist, poet and dramatist Captain Elechi Amadi is dead, aged 82. He died on Wednesday at the Good Heart hospital in Port Harcourt around 3:45pm after a potracted illness, according to a member of the family , Bar Wabueze Amadi. Captain Elechi Amadi was among the first generation of African writers and novelists. Some of his works include The Concubine, The Great Ponds, Isiburu, Sunset in Biafra, Dance of Johannesburg, Peppersoup, The Road to Ibadan, The Slave , Estrangement and the Woman of Calaber.
BIOGRAPHY The Biography Of Late Amadi Gathered By Igberetv Read In Part: Late Elechi Amadi Was Born in 1934, in Aluu in the Ikwerre local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria, Elechi Amadi attended Government College, Umuahia(1948–52), Survey School, Oyo(1953–54), and the University of Ibadan(1955–59), where he obtained a degree in Physics and Mathematics.He worked for a time as a land surveyor and later was a teacher
at several schools, including the Nigerian Military School, Zaria(1963–66).Amadi served in the Nigerian army, remained there during the Nigerian Civil War, and retired at the rank of Captain.He then held various positions with the Rivers State government: Permanent Secretary (1973–83), Commissioner for Education (1987–88) and Commissioner for Lands and Housing (1989–90). He has been writer-in-residence and lecturer at Rivers State College of Education, where he has also been Dean of Arts, head of the literature department and Director of General Studies. We Further Gathered That On 13 May 1989 a symposium was held at the University of Port Harcourt to celebrate Amadi’s 55th birthday.And In May 2004, a conference was organized by the Association of Nigerian Authors, Rivers State Branch, to mark Elechi Amadi’s 70th birthday.We Discovered That On 5 January 2009 Amadi was kidnapped at his home in Aluu town, Port Harcourt, by unknown gunmen. He was released 23 hours later, on the evening of 6 January. He received the following AWARD before his death *.1992 – Rivers State Silver Jubilee Merit Award *.2003 – honorary doctorate, Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Education, honoris causa, awarded by Rivers State University of Science and Technology *.2003 – Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Education and *.2003 – Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR).
MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE....
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