ELECHI AMADI

'Elechi Amadi' (born May 12, 1934) is a Nigerian writer. He has authored three African novels: The Concubine, The Great Ponds and The Slave. Amadi’s novels are generally about African village life, customs, beliefs and religious practices, as they were before contact with the Western world.
Born in 1934 in Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria, he attended Government College Umuahia and the University of Ibadan where he obtained a degree in Physics and Mathematics. Amadi had a stint with the Nigerian army and fought on the Nigerian side during the Nigeria-Biafra War. His personal experiences in the war have been recorded in his autobiographical non-fiction, ''Sunset in Biafra''. After the war Amadi left the army to work for the Rivers State government in Nigeria.

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★ Amadi, Elechi - The Concubine Ibadan: Heinemann Books 1993 ISBN 0-435-90025-0

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