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did to his reputation seems permanent; in both works he infuriated and alienated a large audience and some influential critics. In his defence, Clark maintained that he merely portrayed events as he saw them.
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American society and its values. While the furore generated by this book arguably catapulted him into the international literary limelight, the damage it and
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with their poetic quality and their uniting of the foreign and the local through graphic imagery.
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J. P. Clark: A Voyage, The definitive biography of the main animating force of
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314:(USA: Africana Publishing Corporation, 1970), which illustrate the horrendous events of the
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that in its local setting would normally take seven days to perform, his critical study
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mother, Clark received his early education at the Native
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287:Clark was most noted for his poetry, including:
142:(6 April 1935 – 13 October 2020) was a Nigerian
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352:as "Darkness and Light" and "Iddo Bridge"; the
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404:The beauty of nature and the landscape, as in
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867:A New Reader's Guide to African Literature
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