Wọ́n bi Gabriel Imomotimi Okara ni ojo Kerinlelogbon osu Kerin odun 1921 (born 24 April 1921). eni ti won bi ni Bumoundi  Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. O je akewi ati olukotan omo orile ede Naijria  O je okan lara awon akewi igbalode (Modernist poet of Anglophone Africa) ile alawo dudu ti o n so Geesi. Won mo Gabriel latari awon iwe itan , The Voice (1964), ati iwe ewi ti o ko ti o fi gba ami eye, iyen: The Fisherman's Invocation (1978), The Dreamer ati His Vision (2005). Ninu awon iwe itan aroso ati ewi re ni Okara ti ma n fi eko, esin, alo-onitan ati awon ami oniruuru ile alawo dudu han. fun idi eyi, ni won se n pee ni "the Nigerian Negritudist". Gege bi alatunse awon ise re Brenda Marie Osbey, se so, o ni " A le so wipe awon ise olokan-o-jokan paapaa julo ewi akoko ti Gabriel Okara koko ko ni ise litireso orile-ede Naijiiria ati ewi igbalode ile Adulawo ti bere" Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara, je omo oloye ile Ijọ kan,  won bi ni  Bomoundi ni ilu Niger Delta ni odun 1921.