John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo

John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo was born on 6 April 1935 in Kiagbodo, in the Niger Delta, to an Ijaw father and an Urhobo mother. Educated at Government College, Ughelli, and an administrative clerk for a year, he entered the University of Ibadan in 1955 and took an English degree there in 1960. An information officer, then leader writer at the Daily Express, he spent a year at Princeton in 1962 on a Parvin fellowship and drew from it a pamphlet against America. A researcher at the Institute of African Studies in Ibadan, he transcribed and translated there the Ozidi epic of the Ijaw. A professor at Lagos, he died on 13 October 2020.

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