Northern Nigerian author and a pioneer of English literature, Labo Yari has passed away.
He died on Saturday at the age of 83 at the Federal Medical Center, Katsina.
Yari was one of the few Nigerian authors that collaborated with Chinua Achebe to create the Association of Nigerian Writers in 1981.
Labo Yari, the author of Climate of Corruption, the first novel in English language to be published in Northern Nigeria, is one of the renowned pioneer Nigerian writers.
He was particularly famous for his highly imaginative narrative style that portrayed the social realities of the Hausa/Muslim community.
The conservative prince from Katsina was a soft-spoken author of 15 books, primarily novels. His magnum opus from 1973, Climate of Corruption, and his in-depth biography of the Emir of Katsina, Mahamman Dikko, are the two most well-known.
