Cyprian Ekwensi

Cyprian Odiatu Duaka Ekwensi was born on 26 September 1921 in Minna, into an Igbo family from the north of the country. He studied forestry at Ibadan, then pharmacy in Lagos and in England, taught biology and chemistry at a college in Lagos, ran a pharmacy, then joined the information services and headed Nigerian broadcasting. He had begun publishing as early as 1947 in the cheap pamphlets of the Onitsha market. During the secession, he served the Biafran cause. The Dag Hammarskjöld Prize for literature was awarded to him in 1969. He died in Enugu on 4 November 2007.

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• NovelBurning GrassCyprian Ekwensi · 1962Literature