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Famend Nigerian poet, Prof. John Pepper Clark is useless.
His brother the previous Federal Commissioner for Info and South-South Chief, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, introduced his dying in an announcement saying he died on Tuesday.
“The Clark-Fuludu Bekederemo household of Kiagbodo City, Delta State, needs to announce that Emeritus Professor of Literature and Famend Author, Prof. John Pepper Clark, has lastly dropped his pen within the early hours of right this moment, Tuesday, 13 October 2020.
“Prof. J. P. Clark has paddled on to the nice past in consolation of his spouse, kids and siblings, round him.
“The household appreciates your prayers right now. Different particulars shall be introduced later by the household,” the assertion stated.
Earlier than his dying, he wrote the poem ‘Abiku’, included within the scheme of labor for many secondary colleges.
He’s additionally the creator of the novel ‘The Wives’ Revolt’, obligatory in most secondary colleges within the 90s and early 2000s.
