Nkem Nwankwo

Nkem Nwankwo was born on 12 June 1936 in Nawfia-Awka, near Onitsha, in Igbo country. After his village primary school and the secondary school in Onitsha, he took a degree in English at Ibadan in 1962, where he mixed with the country's first generation of writers. He taught at the secondary school in the town, wrote for the magazine press, including the South African monthly Drum, and worked for Nigerian broadcasting. During the secession, he sat on the Biafran arts council and, with Samuel Ifejika, wrote a book on the birth of that state. Exiled to the United States after the war, he died there in 2001.

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