1921 - 2019
Gabriel Okara Nigerian Writer
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Details
| First Name |
Gabriel
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| Last Name |
Okara
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| Birthday |
24th April, 1921
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| Birthplace |
Bomoundi, Niger Delta, Nigeria
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| Died |
25th March, 2019
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| Place of Death |
Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria
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| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus
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| Nationality |
Nigerian
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| Occupation Text |
Novelist, poet
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| Occupation |
Writer
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Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (24 April 1921 – 25 March 2019) was a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The first modernist poet of Anglophone Africa, he is best known for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964), and his award-winning poetry, published in The Fisherman's Invocation (1978) and The Dreamer, His Vision (2005). In both his poems and his prose, Okara drew on African thought, religion, folklore and imagery, and he has been called "the Nigerian Negritudist". According to Brenda Marie Osbey, editor of his Collected Poems, "It is with publication of Gabriel Okara's first poem that Nigerian literature in English and modern African poetry in this language can be said truly to have begun."
