Eguria

ELECHI AMADI: THE CONCUBINE AUTHOR’S BACKGROUND   Elechi Amadi was born on May, 12, 1934 in Aluu near Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. He attended Government College, Umuahia, for his secondary education, and proceeded to the then University College, Ibadan (now University of Ibadan) where he took a BSc. in Physics and Mathematics. He was a land surveyor and a teacher before he joined the Nigerian Army. He was commissioned and attached to the Military school, Zaira, where he became a Captain in 1966. During the Nigerian civil war. Amadi was a captain in the Federal Army in Port Harcourt. Amadi left the service of the Nigerian Army to serve in the government of his home state – Rivers State – where he subsequently became the Head, Ministry of Information, and later the Head, Ministry of Education. In addition to being a novelist (from where he derives his fame), Amadi is also a playwright having written plays, two of which have been published: Isiburu (1973),Pepper So