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OBITUARY: Okara, literary icon who discovered his writing talent after Herbert Macaulay ‘seized his pencil’

Cryptically crafted, Gabriel Okara’s The Call of the River Nun, written in 1953, transcended beyond an ode to the river that passes through his native home in the Niger Delta.

Gabriel Okara, Nigeria’s foremost poet, dies at 97

Gabriel Okara, Nigeria’s foremost poet and novelist, has died one month to his 98th birthday. According to a family member, Okara died at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, capital of

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