ONE of Africa's finest author, writer and screenwriter Captain Elechi Amadi kicked the bucket Wednesday at the Good Heart healing center in Port Harcourt at 82 years old.
An individual from the family , Bar Wabueze Amadi, confirmed this via telephone, saying he died at 3: 45pm at the clinic. The late Elechi Amadi was among African essayists and writers. Some of Elechi Amadi's 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. He had his 80th birthday party in Port Harcourt, in 2014 releasing of one of his plays, Isiburu to mark his 80th birthday. He was conceived on 12 May, 1934 in Aluu , Ikwerre local government. He went to Government school , Umuahia and went to the University school, Ibadan where he bagged a BSc degree in Physics and Mathematics. He served in the third Marine Commandos of the Nigerian Army. He was first Commissioner for Education in the old Rivers state furthermore served as Commissioner for Lands and Housing He had a few respects surprisingly.
He was Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Education and a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria . He was awarded doctorate degree by the University of Port Harcourt in 2011. He was kidnapped in 2008 and later discharged after some days in their care. He lived in his village , Aluu until his demise. The Director General, NIMASA, Dr Dakuku Peterside depicted him as an incredible Nigerian who will be extraordinarily missed. His words, "Commander Elechi Amadi, surely was a man of numerous parts who touched lives from various perspectives. Also, he will be missed greatly by numerous individuals who met him physically or through his books. He was an understood creator, distributer, fighter and statesman who was worried around a superior society.
"I will recollect him more for his extraordinary books like the Concubine, the Great Ponds, Sunset in Biafra, Estrangement, the Slave and a gathering of lyrics. "It is lamentable that Amadi left when Rivers, our dear state is still far from the desires of its establishing fathers like him and most indigenes of the state. Most likely Elder Elechi Amadi and other establishing fathers will sob in their graves at the condition of Rivers State. Nigeria and the global abstract group has lost an imaginative man. "He had a momentous life and he will doubtlessly be associated with serving mankind with writing and his mediations. May his spirit find unceasing rest in the Lord."
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