BREAKING: Foremost Nigerian Poet, J.P Clark Is Dead

 

Foremost Nigerian poet, John Pepper Clark, popularly called J.P. Clark, is dead.

He died at the age of 85.

The poet, who has been ill for a while, died on Tuesday, PREMIUM TIMES learnt from a close associate, Jahman Anikulapo.

Mr Clark, who studied at the University of Ibadan, was a professor of English at the University of Lagos from where he retired.

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