Captain Elechi Amadi as he was famously known was abducted in 2008 but released after a few days. One of Africa’s celebrated novelist and poet Elechi Amadi is dead. Amadi died on Wednesday while undergoing treatment in a hospital in Port Harcourt Nigeria. Some of the books he has written include; The Concubine, The Great Ponds, The Slave, Dance of Johannesburg, Sunset in Biafra, Peppersoup and the Woman of Calaber. Amadi was born in 1934 and held a BSc degree in Physics and Mathematics.

Source: The Star June 30, 2016 04:41 UTC