Popular Nigerian author, Capt. Elechi Amadi, has died aged 82.
Amadi, who wrote famous books like The Concubine, Isiburu, Sunset in Biafra, andPeppersoup and The Road to Ibadan, died at about 3:15pm on Wednesday, about a week after he became ill.
A close confidant to the literary icon told our correspondent that the deceased was billed to be at Wednesday’s annual book reading programme organised in Port Harcourt by Total Exploration and Production, but could not make it as a result of his ill health.
