Gabriel Okara

Gabriel Okara was born in 1921 in Bumoundi, in the Niger Delta, in Ijaw country. A bookbinder and printer at the government press for nearly ten years, then an information officer, self-taught in poetry, he was the first modernist poet of English-speaking Africa: his first poem, published in 1953, was awarded a prize at the country's arts festival. Many of his unpublished manuscripts were destroyed during the civil war. He also wrote for radio and for children, and died on 25 March 2019 in Yenagoa.

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• NovelThe VoiceGabriel Okara · 1964Literature