Like his contemporaries, Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo both of blessed memory as well as the Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka, he belonged to a literary circle that made the nation’s premier tertiary institution, University of Ibadan tick in the halcyon days.
Ibadan formed him, in a manner of speaking, but he glowed even more at University of Lagos. He left his footprints in the annals of these two great institutions by imparting his literary treasure in those places breeding, in the process, a generation of writers that he hoped would keep the torch alight as a measure of his contributions to literature and education in general.
These critics took note of three main stages in Clark’s poetic career: the apprenticeship stage of trial and experimentation, the imitative stage, in which he tried to appropriate Western poetic conventions and the individualized stage, in which he attains the maturity and originality of form.
Clark’s contribution to other genres was remarkable. His book, America, Their America, a travelogue in which he criticized American society and its values generated enough furore which catapulted him into the international literary limelight. This and another of his works, Casualties, were claimed to have infuriated and alienated a large audience and some influential critics.
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