Elechi Amadi

Elechi Amadi (born May 12, 1934) is a Nigerian writer. He has authored three African novels: The Concubine, The Great Ponds and The Slave. Amadi’s novels are generally about African village life, customs, beliefs and religious practices, as they were before contact with the Western world.He also wrote Isiburu.

Born in 1934 in Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria, he attended Government College Umuahia and the University of Ibadan where he obtained a degree in Physics and Mathematics. Amadi had a stint with the Nigerian army and fought on the Nigerian side during the Nigeria-Biafra War. His personal experiences in the war have been recorded in his autobiographical non-fiction, "Sunset in Biafra". After the war Amadi left the army to work for the Rivers State government in Nigeria.

The Concubine, one of his classic novels of modern African literature has been made into a film. The Concubine written by Elechi Amadi and directed by the accomplished Nollywood movies director Andy Amenechi.

Sources say due to fear of piracy, the movie is to be privately promoted, after which it will be available to the public sometime in 2008. Sources also said over N30 million (i.e over $250,000) was invested in producing the movie.

Elechi Amadi also has an official website www.elechiamadi.org. The website was designed by Lamuel Biambo and hosted by 24cube Concepts. It has a guestbook and a public forum at http://elechiamadi.org/forum.

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*Amadi, Elechi - The Concubine Ibadan: Heinemann Books 1993 ISBN 0-435-90025-0
*www.elechiamadi.org

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