# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gabriel-okara
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:32:03.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gabriel-okara"
name: "Gabriel Okara"
slug: "gabriel-okara"
description: "Gabriel Imomotimi Okara was a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bumoundi,a small town in Rivers state, Nigeria. The first modernist poet of Anglophone Africa, he is best known for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964), and his award-winning poetry, published in The Fisherman's Invocation (1978) and The Dreamer, His Vision (2005). In both his poems and his prose, Okara drew on African thought, religion, folklore and imagery, and he has been called \"the Nigerian Negritudist\". According to Brenda Marie Osbey, editor of his Collected Poems, \"It is with publication of Gabriel Okara's first poem that Nigerian literature in English and modern African poetry in this language can be said truly to have begun.\""
tagline: "Nigerian writer, novelist and poet (1921–2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NG"
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-04-24"
deathDate: "2019-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump