One of Igbo’s most respected poets and Professor of English and Literature, Dubem Okafor is dead.
He died last Sunday, 2 February, 2025, in the United States after shooting his wife, Cheryl.
Reports and calls from the US say Okafor, 64, a cousin to the late poet, Christopher Okigbo apparently in pain his wife had left him a few days earlier, arranged to meet her at his sister’s Reading Home, Pennsylvania, where he shot her several times and himself once in the head at 3:45 p.m. Sunday, 2 February, 2025, police said.
A small-caliber handgun was found near the bodies, police said.
The Berks County coroner declared her death a homicide and his death a suicide.
Chukwudubem A. Okafor, 64, an Associate Professor of English at Kutztown University, was said to have shot his wife, Cheryl V., 37, who was an artist, several times Sunday afternoon, 2 February, 2025 and turned the gun on himself shortly after they arrived separately at the home of his sister, Patricia Ofilin, in the 300 block of Pear Street, investigators said.
