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Elechi Amadi And His Wife, Priye Iyalla-Amadi In Nairobi, Kenya / Literary Icon And Author Of 'the Concubine' Elechi Amadi, Dies At 82 / Foremost Writer Elechi Amadi Dies (2) (3) (4)

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Nobody: 11:01pm On Jun 29, 2016
It's a great great pain one of Nigeria's earliest and finest heroes goes home.
He lived to a grand old age.

May his family have the fortitude to bear the loss.

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by MXrep: 11:01pm On Jun 29, 2016
so by adulterating the name "Nwabueze" as Wabueze you have created a different ethnic group? Ikwerres are yeye people, do this ppl know that others in enugu or anambra also pronounce the name as "Wabueze" in their dialects too but do not write it like that but write in standardized igbo??

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by kingthreat(m): 11:02pm On Jun 29, 2016
RIP Amadi
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Nbote(m): 11:03pm On Jun 29, 2016
If u went thru naija secondary skool den u must have read or seen "The Concubine".. June don swallow plenty renowned Nigerians already...

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Spells(m): 11:07pm On Jun 29, 2016
Two death post following e'm self serially... Lemme wait till tomorrow to b sure b4 saying rip
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by watchme(f): 11:09pm On Jun 29, 2016
The Concubine. I re-read the book just 4 months ago I read it first when I was 15.

RIP Elechi Amadi

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by chimoskyg(m): 11:10pm On Jun 29, 2016
adioolayi:



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/elechi-amadi-dies-82/

Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Ezenwanne: 11:10pm On Jun 29, 2016
One of the novels I enjoyed as a kid was "The Concubine" by Elechi Amadi. R.I.P, Sir

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by daveP(m): 11:10pm On Jun 29, 2016
Sunset in biafra, I would never forget. A legend has gone, a generation is going!!!! RIP

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Ugoeze2016: 11:13pm On Jun 29, 2016
Rest in peace Sir...

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Dexema(m): 11:15pm On Jun 29, 2016
poksmahn:
rip!! Remember reading the great ponds back in secondary sch..
seems we are in the same ship, his book " the great ponds" opened my eyes to African novels and novelists. Your talent will always keep you alive in the hearts of men. Rip.

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by lemonic(m): 11:20pm On Jun 29, 2016
We will never forget d role u played in bringing ihuoroha {ikwerre} peopple together tru ogbakor ikwerre,d way u defended our land during d justice oputa panel and ur strugle for a united ihuoroha...we luv,u are gone but ur works and ur books will remain with us and generation to come...R.I.P. Pride of d ikwerre man...chibor
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Nobody: 11:21pm On Jun 29, 2016
AccessME:
It baffles me with the way people are dieing everyday, Nigeria politicians still have the Gods of embezzling public funds,forgery,lies,thuggery etc

Very scary home boy
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by timpaker(m): 11:22pm On Jun 29, 2016
One of my favourite writer gone again? I so much love his book, the Concubine (emenike was my favourite character)

Abubakar Gimba abeg stay oooooo.

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by electrokcoi(m): 11:38pm On Jun 29, 2016
since this present administration people just de vex de die any how........nd una just keep quiet nobody wan talk or una wan hear am 4rm my mouth abi?....
na who them de leave this country for?






noooo probulemm
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by midasbliss(f): 11:40pm On Jun 29, 2016
Sleep on sire
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by ArchiPelago1: 11:48pm On Jun 29, 2016
Came across his book the concubine yesterday..
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Princedauda: 11:51pm On Jun 29, 2016
May the soul of the deceased rest in peace. A big loss to Nigeria.

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Ariani: 11:55pm On Jun 29, 2016
The confusionist, who sowed the seed of Igbophobia on the heart of Ikwerre youths.

He wrote the Concubine when he was "Ibo" and it reflected on the novel, as he kept making reference to the great "Ibo".

RIP to him.

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by TheSpellChecker: 11:56pm On Jun 29, 2016
AccessME:
It baffles me with the way people are dieing everyday, Nigeria politicians still have the Gods of embezzling public funds,forgery,lies,thuggery etc

Chief, I'm sure if Mr. Elechi Amadi were to be alive today, he'll be so disappointed with your spelling... just like I am. embarassed
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Moneytize: 11:57pm On Jun 29, 2016
Chai! A literary Icon has gone forever. I can never forget the novel "The Concubine" while I was in Secondary school.
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Ariani: 11:58pm On Jun 29, 2016
queencalipso:
I remember reading the concubine, its an interesting play but I can't remember the content. Rip sir


I use to think he's Igbo, never knew he was ikwerre.

He wrote the Concubine when he was still Igbo, ie, before the war.

After the war, he became Ikwerre, and could not go back to turn the characters in his novel to Ikwerre. So Emenike and Ihuoma remained Ibos, while Elechi Amadi became an Igbophobic Ikwerre man.

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by lightheart(m): 12:03am On Jun 30, 2016
RIP sir!

Dakuku went politically petty there.
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by funnydick(m): 12:08am On Jun 30, 2016
MXrep:
so by adulterating the name "Nwabueze" as Wabueze you have created a different ethnic group? Ikwerres are yeye people, do this ppl know that others in enugu or anambra also pronounce the name as "Wabueze" in their dialects too but do not write it like that but write in standardized igbo??


E dey pain am oooo. Igbos will never stop seeking for inheritance in the oil rich Rivers state and they think the best way is by claiming that ikwerre people are igbos. Pls sorry Mr OKORO we not igbos.
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Ariani: 12:08am On Jun 30, 2016
lyricalpontiff:
He is the greatest writer in Africa, just that he is not yoruba or Igbo.

Go and sit down. The Concubine had an Igbo touch of greatness in it, as the story line was Igbo, but it's still a learner to the Chinua Achebe's holy trinity, ie, Things Fall apart, Arrows of God, No longer at ease.

Elechi the Igbo man was a great writer, Elechi the Ikwerre man had nothing more to offer the world than Igbophobia, and so he fizzled out of relevance.

The literature world doesnt respect the ethnic group of an Individual, if Elechi was any better than he was, the world would know and would have offered him due respect.

He( Elechi Amadi) had nothing on Achebe.

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Unitedabby(m): 12:12am On Jun 30, 2016
adioolayi:



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/elechi-amadi-dies-82/

This was indeed a great man!Not the dead crimminal politicians...RIP sir!
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Ariani: 12:14am On Jun 30, 2016
IceMan85:


He is pure Igbo bro, from rivers state. He's blood is Igbo and his name is a clear indication that he is Igbo

Nnaa, stop disgracing Ndiigbo. The young Elechi that wrote "the Concubine" was an Igbo man, but the old Relechi Ramadi that just died, was not an Igbo man. He was a rabid Igbophobic Ikwerre man who abhored Igbo tag with every cell in his body.

He was behind the campaign to separate Ikwerre as a distinct entity from Ndiigbo after the war, he planted the seed of Igbophobia in the hearts of most Ikwerre youths, and he went on to fabricate and doctor the Bini origin history of Ikwerre, which he shamelessly promoted until the day he died.


No well informed Igbo man would want Ndiigbo to be associated with anything that has to with Relechi Ramadi.

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Ariani: 12:16am On Jun 30, 2016
funnydick:


U are a vastly idiotic Mr man and your stupidity is impressive. We would have thought u are intelligent if only u had written RIP.

Mynd44, I believe a rule has been broken. Do the needful.
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by funnydick(m): 12:26am On Jun 30, 2016
Ariani:


Mynd44, I believe a rule has been broken. Do the needful.

Look at this Aba thug. U will never think of your frustrating life, it is how to circulate false history.
Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by stagger: 12:29am On Jun 30, 2016
The Great Ponds was a masterpiece any day. RIP.

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Re: Elechi Amadi Is Dead by Ariani: 12:34am On Jun 30, 2016
funnydick:


Look at this Aba thug. U will never think of your frustrating life, it is how to circulate false history.

Point out one part of my post that is false.

The characters in " the concubine" were repeately referred as Ibos by the Young Elechi Amadi, is it not obvious that Elechi considered himself an Ibo, when he was writing that story line?

Is it not true that after the war, Elechi Amadi metamorphosed to Relechi Ramadi and was the the cheerleader in the Igbophophic campaign that had since taken root and grown into an Orji tree in Ikwerrreland today?

Did Relechi Ramadi not doctor a book where he claimed against all known human rationality and logic, that Ikwerre migrated from Bini and are Bini people?

Did Relechi Ramadi not become irrelevant in the literature world after the civil war when he became consumed with Igbophobia and reduced himself to a parochial writer blinded by Igbophobic sentiments?

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