Obi Egbuna | |
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| Born | Obi Benue Egbuna 18 July 1938 Ozubulu, Anambra State, Nigeria |
| Died | 18 January 2014 (aged 75) Washington, DC, United States |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Other names | Obi Benue Joseph Egbuna |
| Education | University of Iowa; Howard University |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, playwright and political activist |
| Known for | Pioneer of the Black power movement in Britain |
Obi Benue Egbuna // ⓘ(18 July 1938 – 18 January 2014) was a Nigerian-born novelist, playwright and political activist known for leading the Universal Coloured People's Association (UCPA) and being a member of the British Black Panther Movement (1968–72) during the years when he lived in England, between 1961 and 1973. Egbuna published several texts on Marxist–Black Power, including Destroy This Temple: The Voice of Black Power in Britain (1971) and The ABC of Black Power Thought (1973).