Nigerian Renowned Novelist dies at 74.

Nigerian novelist dies at 74

Lagos - One of Africa’s foremost scholar of
Oral Literature and award-winning novelist,
Professor Isidore Okpewho, has passed on at
74.
The Distinguished Professor at State University
of New York, died peacefully on Sunday,
September 4th, surrounded by family members
at a hospital in Binghamton, a town in Upstate
New York where he had lived and taught since
1991.
His teaching career spanned University of New
York at Buffalo (1974-76), University of Ibadan
(1976-90), Harvard University (1990-91), and
State University of New York at Binghamton.
Okpewho won the 1976 African Arts Prize for
Literature and 1993 Commonwealth Writers'
Prize Best Book Africa.
His four novels, The Victims, The Last Duty,
Tides, and Call me by my Rightful Name are
widely studied in Africa and other parts of the
world, with some of them translated into major
world languages.
-News24