Nigeria’s foremost writer, Professor Bankole Ajibade Omotoso, popularly known as Kole Omotoso is dead.
He died in Cape Town, South Africa, at the age of 80.
His death was announced in a statement by his family.
“Our beloved father and husband moved on from this plane on Wednesday 19th late afternoon. We are sharing this with his close and much-loved community and will share more as we gather ourselves,” the statement reads.
Born on April 21, 1943, he was from Akure, Ondo State of Nigeria.
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He had his secondary school education at King’s College, Lagos, and later proceeded to the University of Ibadan.
He undertook a doctoral thesis on the modern Arabic writer Ahmad Ba Kathir at the University of Edinburgh.
Some of his works include: The Edifice (1971); The Combat (1972); Miracles (short stories) (1973); Fela’s Choice (1974); Sacrifice (1974, 1978); The Scales (1976); To Borrow a Wandering Leaf (1978); Memories of Our Recent Boom (1982) and Just Before Dawn.
He also authored Achebe or Soyinka? A Study in Contrasts (1995) and Woza Africa (1997) among others.
