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The African literary giant, J.P. Clark died on Tuesday at the age of 85.  The Nigerian poet and playwright, who also published as J. P. Clark and John Pepper Clark, was most noted for works in which he explored themes such as violence and protest, institutional corruption, European colonialism, the inhumanity of the human race as well as beauty in Nature. Fellow poet and academic Tanure Ojaide, Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte in the USA knew John Pepper Clark well and has written extensively on him. He's been telling Focus on Africa's Audrey Brown about his reaction to the death of J.P. Clark. (Photo: J.P. Clark. Credit:CLARK FULUDU YULETIDE/FACEBOOK)