Nigerian Professor of Literature and renowned writer and poet, Professor John Pepper Clark, is dead. He was aged 85.
He was the younger brother of former Federal Commissioner for Information and one of South-South’s prominent political leaders, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark.
A statement signed by Prof. C. C. Clark, for the family; and Mr. Ilaye Clark, for the children and made available to Vanguard on Tuesday, said that the literary giant died in the early hours of today.
“The Clark-Fuludu Bekederemo family of Kiagbodo Town, Delta State, wishes to announce that Emeritus Professor of Literature and Renowned Writer, Prof. John Pepper Clark, has finally dropped his pen in the early hours of today, Tuesday, 13 October 2020″, the statement said.
