Library and Archive Niger-Delta

Happy new year from all of us at LANG

Goodnight Prof. John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo @ 85 😢😢😢

At 77 Literary giant and one of Nigeria’s most celebrated poets and playwright, Professor John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo does not plan to quit writing. Some of his poetry works include...

1) Poems (Mbari, 1961),
2) A Reed in the Tide (Longmans, 1965)
3) Casualties: Poems 1966-68
4) A Decade of Tongues (Longmans, Drumbeat series, 1981),
5) State of the Union (1981),
6) Mandela and Other Poems (1988),


John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo born 6 April 1935 in Kiagbodo, Delta State, Nigeria, to Ijaw parents.