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Nkem Nwankwo (12 June 1936 – 12 June 2001) was a Nigerian novelist and poet. ==Biography== Born in Nawfia-Awka, a village near the Igbo city of Onitsha in Nigeria, Nwankwo attended University College in Ibadan, gaining a BA in 1962. After graduating he took a teaching job at Ibadan Grammar School, before going on to write for magazines, including ''Drum'' and working for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation.〔(Oyekan Owomoyela, ''The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945'' ), Columbia University Press, 2008, pp. 132-33.〕 He wrote several stories for children that were published in 1963 as ''Tales Out of School''; ''More Tales out of School'' would follow in 1965. Writer of short stories and poems, Nwankwo gained significant attention with his first novel ''Danda'' (1964),〔(Lynn, Thomas J., ''Tricksters Don't Walk the Dogma: Nkem Nwankwo's "Danda."'', College Literature; Summer2005, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p1 )〕 which was made into a widely performed musical that was entered in the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal.〔 During the Nigerian Civil War Nwanko worked on Biafra's Arts Council and in 1968, in collaboration with Samuel X. Ifekjika, he wrote ''Biafra: The Making of a Nation''. After the civil war, he returned to Lagos and worked on the national newspaper, the ''Daily Times''.〔 His subsequent works included the satire ''My Mercedes Is Bigger than Yours''. During the 1970s, Nwankwo earned a Master's and Ph.D. at Indiana University. He also wrote about corruption in Nigeria. He spent the latter part of his life in the US and taught at Michigan State University and Tennessee State University.〔("Nkem Nwankwo" ). Anderson Brown's Literary Blog, 11 January 2010.〕 He died in his sleep in Tennessee, from complications from a heart imbalance that he had been battling for some years.〔(Tunde Okoli, "Nigeria: Author, Nkem Nwankwo is Dead", AllAfrica, 3 July 2001. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nkem Nwankwo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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