Frederick Nnabuenyi Ugonna, often abbreviated to F. Nnabuenyi Ugonna (12 October 1936, in Amaokpara/Ihitenansa, Imo State, Nigeria – 5 June 1990, in London) was a Nigerian ethnologist, linguist, and writer. He is best known for his work on the Igbo language and other African languages as well as African literature.
Ugonna was the first who initiated the thesis of J. E. Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911) being the first truly African novel; therefore he wrote an introduction for the book's second edition, which was published by Frank Cass & Co in 1969.[1]
Ugonna died of prostate cancer in 1990 in London.
References edit
- ^ Hayford, J. E. C. (12 October 2012). "Introduction". Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation: Studies in Race Emancipation (2nd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781136252532.
External links edit
- Uwandiigbo.com - detailed biography (PDF file) Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine