Chidi amuta biography sample

Monday, July 24, 2023, marked the 70th birthday of the renowned scholar, teacher, theorist, journalist and author, Chidi Amuta. As a student of literature, my first “encounter” with Amuta was during my postgraduate studies courtesy of his first book of literary criticism, ‘Towards a Sociology of African Literature’, released in 1986. I would later engage with ‘Theory of African Literature: Implications for Practical Criticism’ also written by him and published in 1989.

Amuta also wrote ‘Prince of the Niger: The Babangida Years’ in 1992. He has availed the reading public with selections from his humongous mass of media treatises with his book ‘Writing the Wrong’ an intimidating 1000-page compendium published in 2014.

I have read Amuta voraciously beginning with his contributions to The Guardian which was established in 1983. He was in the critical core of scholars who invested in Niger Short biography sample.