Yep, JP Clark was a name among names

Rest in peace

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my favourite poem is abiku, may your soul rest in peace.

tutudesz:

MY LAST TESTAMENT, A POEM BY JP CLARK
MY LAST TESTAMENT
This is to my family Do not take me to a mortuary, Do not take me to a church, Whether I die in or out of town, But take me home to my own, and To lines and tunes, tested on the waves Of time, let me lie in my place On the Kiagbodo River.
If Moslems do it in a day, You certainly can do it in three, Avoiding blood and waste, And whatever you do after, My three daughters and my son By the only wife I have, Do not fight over anything I may be pleased to leave behind

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OlujobaSamuel:
Rest on Baba. I think he wrote Ibadan, the city of brown roofs. Such a lovely poem before people turned it to something else. Enjoy your afterlife sir. Plenty love.

especially Nairalanders!!

Wow!

We English and Literature graduates will always cherish him..

My favorite of his poem ( although poetry is my least favorite genre of literature) is ' "Lest We Should be the Last'..

Man was a Legend..

I Stan!

Adieu Bekederemo J Pepper Clark

Throwback:
Sad loss.

One of the Nigerian literary quartet that Wole Soyinka referred to.

Now only Soyinka is left behind.
Christopher Okigbo is gone.
Chinua Achebe is gone.
JP Clark is gone.

Ola Rotimi is gone too

It was great reading JP Clark back then in my alma mater. I loved his works alot and I am proud of doing literature in English as a science student. I still miss Festus Iyayi and now JP is gone. May God grant you eternal rest in His bosom. And like Abiku, if you wish, come back again as a literary giant.
My personal tribute to Professor John Pepper Clark is his own peom- ABIKU


Coming and going these several seasons,
Do stay out on the baobab tree,
Follow where you please your kindred spirits
If indoors is not enough for you.
True, it leaks through the thatch
When floods brim the banks,
And the bats and the owls
Often tear in at night through the eaves,
And at harmattan, the bamboo walls
Are ready tinder for the fire
That dries the fresh fish up on the rack.
Still, it’s been the healthy stock
To several fingers, to many more will be
Who reach to the sun.
No longer then bestride the threshold
But step in and stay
For good. We know the knife scars
Serrating down your back and front
Like beak of the sword-fish,
And both your ears, notched
As a bondsman to this house,
Are all relics of your first comings.
Then step in, step in and stay
For her body is tired,
Tired, her milk going sour
Where many more mouths gladden the heart.

Many youths wouldn't know this man because our curriculum is wack ..they also killed history in schools in order to keep us oblivious of the very essence of our own existence as a people in a country.

RiP sir. Regards to Achebe when you meet at the other side

Throwback:
Sad loss.

One of the Nigerian literary quartet that Wole Soyinka referred to.

Now only Soyinka is left behind.
Christopher Okigbo is gone.
Chinua Achebe is gone.
JP Clark is gone.

cyprain ekwensi is gone too passport of mallam illia i just love that book

nonsense death, why not visit aso rock?

Rest in peace Sir! I studied your poems.

tutudesz:
The Clark-Fuludu Bekederemo family of Kiagbodo Town, Delta State, wishes to announce that Emeritus Professor of Literature and Renowned Writer, Prof. John Pepper Clark, has finally dropped his pen in the early hours of today, Tuesday, 13 October, 2020.

Prof. J. P. Clark has paddled on to the great beyond in comfort of his wife, children and sibbling, around him.

The family appreciates your prayers at this time.
Other details will be announced later by the family.

Signed:
Prof. C. C. Clark, for the family.
Mr. Ilaye Clark, for the children.

Emeritus Professor of Literature and Renowned Writer, Professor John Pepper Clark is dead.
The poet is the younger brother of former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South Leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark.
In a statement signed by Prof. C. C. Clark, for the family and Mr. Ilaye Clark, for the children and made available to Vanguard Tuesday, Professor John Pepper Clark died in the early hours of today.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/breaking-edwin-clark-loses-brother-prof-j-p-clark/

May his soul rest in peace. A great and erudite literary scholar is gone. It's well

Rest on sir!!

Your legacies lives on!

His poem 'The Casualties' which I read in my early secondary school was my first knowledge of the Biafran war. RIP Prof J.P Clark

J.P Clark the great poet, rest on in the land of ABIKU

On to the great yonder.
Soar on the wings of the clouds.

J.P Clark

"The wives Revolt" I read the book in JSS2

tutudesz:
The Clark-Fuludu Bekederemo family of Kiagbodo Town, Delta State, wishes to announce that Emeritus Professor of Literature and Renowned Writer, Prof. John Pepper Clark, has finally dropped his pen in the early hours of today, Tuesday, 13 October, 2020.

Prof. J. P. Clark has paddled on to the great beyond in comfort of his wife, children and sibbling, around him.

The family appreciates your prayers at this time.
Other details will be announced later by the family.

Signed:
Prof. C. C. Clark, for the family.
Mr. Ilaye Clark, for the children.

Emeritus Professor of Literature and Renowned Writer, Professor John Pepper Clark is dead.
The poet is the younger brother of former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South Leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark.
In a statement signed by Prof. C. C. Clark, for the family and Mr. Ilaye Clark, for the children and made available to Vanguard Tuesday, Professor John Pepper Clark died in the early hours of today.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/breaking-edwin-clark-loses-brother-prof-j-p-clark/

RIP. Reading your works as a child/teen, I thought you were a white man and so was terrible confused how your writings touched so well on African culture. Rest on.

Great man in his life time

RIP sir.


Forever in my heart.

Penlords

Rest in peace great one

The man who gave us "Abiku"...

Farewell.

ejimatic:
Ola Rotimi is gone too

What about Elechi Amadi ? He is gone as well.

So sorry for the loss.
One of his poems lingers on...

ÌBÀDÀN -JP CLARK

Ìbàdàn, running splash of
Rust and gold flung and
Scattered among the seven
Hills like a broken China
In the Sun.

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Soyinka is the last man standing among them, Soyinka and J.P friendship dated back to the 60ths[/quote May Soyinka never die

Virus99:
Abiku is dead las las

people born in the 90s wont know this.

Awwnnn. John pepper Clark. Very renouned poet.

I remember his night rain poetry work in ss1. oh.. so nostalgic.

"Bobbed up bellywise.". that's the only thing I still remember from that poem. Wow old memories.

So he's black. Used to think he's white.

RIP.

ajebuter:
Wow!

We English and Literature graduates will always cherish him..

My favorite of his poem ( although poetry is my least favorite genre of literature) is ' "Lest We Should be the Last..

Man was a Legend..

I Stan!

I think this was written by Kwesu Brew. Great poem too