Nigeria: Professor Isidore Okpewho to Be Buried On Saturday

16 September 2016

The family of Africa's foremost scholar of Oral Literature and award-winning novelist Prof. Isidore Okpewho who died on September 4th, 2016 has announced arrangements for his final rite of passage. The prolific author of over a dozen books and scores of academic articles will be buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover, New Jersey, United States of America on Saturday, September 17th, 2016.

The internment will be preceded by Visitation/Viewing and a funeral mass on Friday, September 16th, 2016 at St. Vincent de Paul Blessed Sacrament Church, 465 Clubhouse Road, Vestal, in Upstate New York.

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