AFRICA'S FOREMOST AFRICAN ORAL LITERARY ICON DIES AT AGE 74!!!
Prof. Okpewho who was a prolific novelist and an African Oral Literature researcher has passed on peacefully on the 4th of September, 2016 at a hospital in Binghamton, New York in the United States of America.
FEW FACTS ABOUT ISIDORE OKPEWHO
1. He was born on 9th of November, 2016.
2. He is from Abraka in Delta State in Nigeria.
3. He was born in Agbor, Delta State in Nigeria.
4. He attended St. Patrick's College, Asaba.
5. He had a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the University of Denver.
6. He has been living in Binghamton, a town in New York, United States since 1991.
7. He has taught in the University of New York at Buffalo (1974-1976), University of Ibadan (1976-1990), Havard University (1990-1991).
8. He is a first rate scholar and pioneer of Oral Literature in Africa.
9. He won the 1976 African Arts Prize for Literature and 1993 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Africa.
10. He died on 4th September, 2016.
11. He is survived by his wife Obiageli, his children - Ediru, Ugo, Afigo and Onome.
Farewell Beloved Icon of Africa!!!
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