of conscience, human solidarity and justice." Awards 1992 – Rivers State Silver Jubilee Merit Award. 2003 – honorary doctorate, Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Education, honoris causa, awarded by Rivers State University of Science and Technology. 2003 – Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Education. 2003 – Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR). Legacy The Faculty of Humanity in University of Port Harcourt, is dedicated to him. Port Harcourt Polytechnic was renamed to Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic in 2016. Bibliography The Concubine (novel), London: Heinemann African Writers Series, 1969; Ibadan: Heinemann Books, 1993, The Great Ponds (novel), Heinemann, 1969; Macmillan Education, 1976, Sunset in Biafra (war diary), Heinemann African Writers Series, 1969, Isiburu (play), Heinemann, 1973, Peppersoup and The Road (plays, combined volume), Ibadan: Onibonoje Publishers, 1977 Dancer of Johannesburg (play), Ibadan: Onibonoje Publishers, 1978 The Slave (novel), Heinemann African Writers Series, 1978, Ethics in Nigerian Culture (philosophy), London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1982, Estrangement (novel), Heinemann African Writers Series, 1986, The Woman of Calabar (play), Port Harcourt: Gitelle Press, 2002 Speaking and Singing (essays and poems), University of Port Harcourt Press, 2003 Collected Plays (ed. Seiyifa Koroye), Port Harcourt: Pearl Publishers, 2004 When God Came, 2011 Further reading Ebele Eko, Elechi Amadi: The Man and his Work, Yaba, Lagos: Kraft Books Ltd, 1991. Willfried Feuser and Ebele Eko (eds), Elechi Amadi at 55, Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books, 1994. Seiyifa Koroye, Critical Perspectives on Elechi Amadi, Port Harcourt: Pearl Publishers/Association of Nigerian Authors, 2008. References External links Elechi Amadi official website "Conversation with Elechi Amadi: When I wrote The Concubine, I thought it was a joke", The Sun (Nigeria), 16 July 2016. Wole Soyinka, "Elechi Amadi, a tribute", The News, 4 July 2016. 1934 births 2016 deaths Nigerian male novelists University of Ibadan alumni Writers from Rivers State Members of the Order of the Federal Republic 20th-century Nigerian novelists 21st-century Nigerian novelists Ikwerre people Rivers State Commissioners of Education People of Rivers State in the Nigerian Civil War Military personnel of the Nigerian Civil War International Writing Program alumni Educators from Rivers State 20th-century male writers 21st-century male writers Government College Umuahia alumni