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By Adewale Maja-Pearce A Peculiar Tragedy is a critical biography of poet and playwright John Pepper Clark, better known as JP Clark, who along with Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka (all schoolmates at Nigeria’s University if Ibadan in the s) were among the pioneers of modern literature in the West African country.

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Adewale Maja-Pearce is an Anglo-Nigerian writer born in who currently lives in Lagos, Nigeria. He is married to Juliet Ezenwa, the artist. He currently runs YEMAJA, an editorial services agency. He also has a small publishing company, The New Gong.

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A little over a hundred pages into A Peculiar Tragedy, it becomes clear that the pact between Adewale Maja-Pearce, the author, and John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo, the subject of what begins like an authorized biography, is headed for the rocks.

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By Adewale Maja-Pearce I was recently the recipient of what one writer called ‘a devastating public verbalassault’ by Wole Soyinka. The occasion was an interview with Sahara Reporters, inthe course of which I was tagged as a ‘sterile literary upstart’, ‘an inept hustler’, ‘anignoble character’, and ‘an empty, notoriety-hungry hanger-on and upstartsearching for relevance’.

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Cyprian Ekwensi, who died in at the age of eighty-six, was always something of an outsider in Nigerian literature in was partly because of his subject matter, partly his industry, and partly his attitude toward the business of writing, the last of which was captured in a BBC interview, in which he declared himself “a writer for the masses”.

Adewale Maja-Pearce's latest book is The House My Father Built (Kachifo, ) Achebe himself, the title of whose novel, Things Fall Apart, was prophetic.

Vatsa also happened to be an aspiring poet and active member of the Association of Nigerian Authors, and Soyinka, in the company of the novelist Chinua Achebe and the poet J.P. Clark-Bekederemo, made a much-publicised visit to the general to plead on behalf of their colleague.