Tag: Gabriel Okara

Nigerian poet and novelist Gabriel Okara died in his sleep at his home in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, after a brief illness on Monday, March 25, 2019. Gabriel Okara was born on April 24, 1921, in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. He attended Government College Umuahia in the 1930s and 40s where he got exposed to and was…