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Elechi Amadi

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Nigerian author (1934-2016)

Person · Open Library

Born
1934
Works
28

Top works

  • Collected plays
  • Peppersoup ; and, The Road to Ibadan
  • The woman of calabar
  • The beggar's story and other tales
  • Estrangement

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Quotes

  • It was a fact that if Amadioha has insisted on taking a man’s life, no medicine man could do anything about it...”
  • What hurts one man may benefit another” and “a diseased village is a good village to a medicine man”
  • One thing is clear: I shall marry Ihuoma. She is a human being, and if marrying a woman like her is a fatal mistake, I am prepared to make it. If I am her husband for a day before my death my soul will go singing happily to the spirit world. There also I shall be prepared to dare the wrath of four hundred Sea Kings for her sake.
  • Ihuoma is the sea-king’s main interest and her male admires are victims of circumstance and of their own misdeeds”
  • No one wanted to betray his admiration. There was silence for a time.
  • He reconciles himself to these forces and treats them with reverence and dignity. He believes that his every action is guided and directed by spirits”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Nigeria
Place of birth
Rivers State
Place of death
Port Harcourt
Occupation
novelist
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
Igbo
Religion
Christian
Field of work
military
Significant event
Nigerian Civil War
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place of burial
Port Harcourt
date of burial or cremation
2016-12-03
cause of death
illness
date of birth
1934-05-12
date of death
2016-06-29
ancestral home
Nigeria
ethnic group
Igbo people
writing language
English language
manner of death
natural causes
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