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Nigeria's Elechi Amadi, author of The Concubine, takes final bow

Popular novelist and playwright Elechi Amadi

Popular novelist and playwright Elechi Amadi, best known for his famous work, The Concubine, is dead. He was aged 82.

The writer, who is considered among the giants of African literature, died in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt after a long illness.

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