Nigeria: Author, Nkem Nwankwo is Dead

3 July 2001

Nigeria's celebrated writer and author of Danda and My Mercedes is Bigger than Yours, Professor Nkem Nwankwo is dead. He died in his sleep in Tennessee, United States of America last week. He will be buried this Saturday at Unofia, Anambra State.

THISDAY gathered exclusively from family sources that the late writer and Professor of African Studies and Literature died from complications from a heart imbalance he has been battling for some years now.

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