Nkem Nwankwo

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Biography

Born in Nawfia-Awka, a village near the Igbo city of Onitsha in Anambra State, southeastern Nigeria, Nwankwo attended University College in Ibadan (the capital city of Oyo State, southwest Nigeria), gaining a BA in 1962.[2] After graduating he took a teaching job at Ibadan Grammar School, before going on to write for magazines, including Drum and working for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation.[3]

He wrote several stories for children that were published in 1963 such as Tales Out of School.[4] He then wrote More Tales out of School in 1965.[5]

Writer of short stories and poems, Nwankwo gained significant attention with his first novel Danda (1964),[6] which was made into a widely performed musical that was entered in the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal.[3] During the Nigerian Civil War Nwankwo worked on Biafra's Arts Council.[7] In 1968, in collaboration with Samuel X. Ifekjika, he wrote Biafra: The Making of a Nation.[4] After the civil war, he returned to Lagos and worked on the national newspaper, the Daily Times.[3] His subsequent works included the satire My Mercedes Is Bigger than Yours.[8]

During the 1970s, Nwankwo earned a Master's and Ph.D. at Indiana University.[9] He also wrote about corruption in Nigeria. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States and taught at Michigan State University and Tennessee State University.[10]

He died in his sleep in Tennessee, from complications from a heart imbalance that he had been battling for some years.[11]

Books

Short stories

  • The Gambler, in: Black Orpheus no. 9[15]
  • His Mother, in: Nigeria Magazine no. 80, March 1964[16]
  • The Man Who Lost in: Nigeria Magazine no. 84, March 1965[16]

Other

  • Sex Has Been Good To Me (reprint of essays), 2004Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
  • Shadow of the Masquerade (autobiography), Nashville, TN: Niger House Publications 1994, pp. 58–61
  • A Song for Fela & Other Poems. Nashville, TN: Nigerhouse, 1993Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
  • Theatre reviews in: Nigeria Magazine no. 72, March 1962Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

References

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  3. ↑ a b c Oyekan Owomoyela, The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945, Columbia University Press, 2008, pp. 132–33.
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  6. ↑ Lynn, Thomas J., "Tricksters Don't Walk the Dogma: Nkem Nwankwo's 'Danda'", College Literature, Summer 2005, Vol. 32, Issue 3, p. 1.
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  10. ↑ "Nkem Nwankwo". Anderson Brown's Literary Blog, 11 January 2010.
  11. ↑ Tunde Okoli, "Nigeria: Author, Nkem Nwankwo is Dead", AllAfrica, 3 July 2001.
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  15. ↑ Black Orpheus was an influential literary periodical in Ibadan, founded in 1957 by Ulli Beier, see Bernth Lindfors, Black Orpheus, in: European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, Vol. 2, John Benjamins Publishing, 1986, pp. 669–679.
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  • Akwanya, A. N. The Self in the Mirror: Nkem Nwankwo and the Study of Exhibitionism in: OKIKE 39 (1988) 39–52.

External links

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