Egbuna, Obi B.
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Name (Latin)
Egbuna, Obi B.
Other forms of name
Egbuna, Obi Benue
Egbuna, Obi Benue Joseph
Egbuna, Obi
Eguna, Obi B
Date of birth
1938-07-18
Date of death
2014-01-18
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
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Sources of Information
- Wikipedia, July 9, 2025(Obi Egbuna; Obi Benue Egbuna; born 18 July 1938, Ozubulu, Anambra State, Nigeria; other name: Obi Benue Joseph Egbuna; Nigerian-born novelist, playwright, and political activist, known for leading the Universal Coloured People's Association (UCPA) and being a member of the British Black Panther Movement (1968-72) during the years when he lived in England; published texts on Marxist-Black Power; studied at the University of Iowa and Howard University, Washington, DC; moved in 1961 to England, where he lived until 1973; in London he was a member of a group called the Committee of African Organisations that had roots in the West African Students' Union, which organised Malcolm X's 1965 visit to Britain; in 1966 his play Wind Versus Polygamy was performed at the World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar, Senegal; he became a pioneer of the Black Power movement in Britain; formed the Universal Coloured People's Association in August 1967, following Stokely Carmichael's visit; with the Race Relations Act 1965, incitement of racial violence became illegal in the United Kingdom; several members of Egbuna's UCPA were fined under this act, and Egbuna was imprisoned later that year, accused of threatening to kill police and certain politicians; his last novel, The Madness of Didi, was published in 1980; died 18 January 2014 (age 75), Washington, DC; his papers are held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
- His Wind versus polygamy, 1964
- His The rape of Lysistrata, 1980:t.p. (Obi B. Egbuna) p. 4 of cover (Obi Egbuna)
- Diary of a homeless prodigal, 1976:t.p. (Obi B. Egbuna) cover (Obi B. Eguna [i.e. Egbuna])
- BL auth. file, 27 Oct. 2003(hdg.: Egbuna, Obi B. (Obi Benue))