Ogali A. Ogali

Ogali is perhaps the best known and most internationally visible of Nigerian popular writers of the Onitsha market school. Born in Item, in the Abia State of Nigeria, he studied at the Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar, and received a diploma in journalism from the Ghana School of toon meer Journalism. Ogali is best known for his fictional social comedies, such as Eddie the Coal City Boy (1955), Okeke, the Magician (1958), Long, Long Ago (1957), and Smile Awhile (1957), and for farcical plays about postcolonial politics and urban social relationships, among which the most popular include Patrice Lumumba (1961), Veronica, My Daughter (1956), Adelabu (1958), Mr. Rabbit is Dead (1958), and The Ghost of Lumumba (1961). Soon after the Nigerian civil war, Ogali (who worked in the Biafran information and propaganda complex during the war years) issued a devastatingly bitter tirade against the corrupt practices of priests and Christian workers in Biafran relief centers, entitled No Heaven for Priests (1970). Since then Ogali has been mostly silent, but his works continue to be the subject of academic study, and at least one major collection of his writings has appeared in the United States. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder