September 06, 2006
Professor Jadesola Akande in Conversation with Toluwanimi Olujimi Part 1
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Mrs. Jadesola Akande is a professor of high repute, and the second female Vice-Chancellor of a tertiary institution in Nigeria. Born on 15th November 1940 in Lagos, she attended University College, London where she obtained LL.B (Hon.) 1960-1963, and also had her Ph.D. 1969-1971. She was barrister at law at the Inner temple, London between....
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August 27, 2006
Professor V.C. Ike in Conversation with Professor Osmond Enekwe, Uduma Kalu and Alvan Ewuzie
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Professor Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike is one of Africa’s leading writers and intellectuals. He was born in eastern Nigeria and educated at the University of Ibadan, and at Stanford University in the USA. As an educator, Ike has contributed to the intellectual and cultural development of Africa in important administrative positions at Nigerian universities and at UNESCO, and as a professor at the University of Jos. His novels include Toads for Supper (1965), which is set....
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August 08, 2006
Professor Bede N. Okigbo in Conversation with Professor Ossie Enekwe, Uduma Kalu and Alvan Ewuzie
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Professor Bede N. Okigbo is the renowned agronomist and retired Director of the World Agricultural Institute in Japan, former Director of the United Nations Institute for Agricultural Research in Africa, Accra, Ghana, and the former Deputy Director-General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Ibadan, Nigeria. He is widely regarded as Africa’s leading ....
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July 24, 2006
Mrs. Oyibo Odinamadu in Conversation with Obi Nwakanma -2
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Mrs. Oyibo Odinamadu, an icon of politics, civil rights and the women’s movement, made a name for herself as a leader of various women’s organizations and as a public servant in Nigeria. She was especially active in the founding of the National Council for Women Societies (NCWS) and was president of the Eastern Nigeria council from 1958 until she joined active partisan politics in....
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July 10, 2006
Mrs. Oyibo Odinamadu in Conversation with Obi Nwakanma -1
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Mrs. Oyibo Odinamadu, an icon of politics, civil rights and the women’s movement, made a name for herself as a leader of various women’s organizations and as a public servant in Nigeria. She was especially active in the founding of the National Council for Women Societies (NCWS) and was president of the Eastern Nigeria council from 1958 until she joined active partisan politics in....
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June 25, 2006
Chief M.T. MBU in Conversation with Maxim Uzoatu and Paul Odili
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- MBU, Matthew Tawo - Lawyer, Politician, Diplomat, and a permanent fixture in Nigerian political affairs for more than fifty years - is a political giant. Chief Mbu was born on November 20, 1929, in Okundi, Cross River State. He received his early education at Okundi Primary School from 1937 to 1940. He also....
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June 11, 2006
Professor Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe in Conversation with Toluwanimi Olujimi
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Professor Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe, MD, D.Phil, FRCP, FWACP, FAS, NNOM; CON, Officier de l’Ordre National de La Republique de Cote d’Ivoire, is one of the world’s most distinguished and respected physicians and intellectuals. Professor Akinkugbe is the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin; former Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University; former....
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May 27, 2006
Professor Wole Soyinka in Conversation with Omoyele Sowore, Michael Mbabuike, and Okey Ndibe
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- He is Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate; a world acclaimed writer, and celebrated crusader for social justice and human rights. Professor Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka requires no other introduction.
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May 18, 2006
Professor Babatunde (Babs) Fafunwa in Conversation with Toluwanimi Olujimi and Professor Okey Ndibe
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Prof. Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa – the former Federal Minister of Education and Youth Development, 1990 to January 1993 – is widely regarded as Nigeria’s foremost educationist. He received his primary school education between 1932-1936, and then attended ....
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May 17, 2006
Professor Bolanle Awe in Conversation with Toluwanimi Olujimi
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Professor Bolanle Awe, the Pro-chancellor and Chairman of Council, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), and professor of History (D.Phil.Oxon) at the University of Ibadan, is one of Africa’s leading Historians and academics. She was born on January 26, 1933 and attended ....
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April 14, 2006
Archbishop AJV Obinna in Conversation with Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Dr. Anthony J.V. Obinna, the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri, is one of Africa’s foremost theologians and scholars. Born on June 26, 1946 in Emekuku (near Owerri), and educated at St. Peter Claver Seminary, Okpala (near Aba), and Bigard Memorial Seminary, he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on April 19, 1972. Obinna graduated with....
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April 06, 2006
President Shehu Shagari in Conversation with Pini Jason- Part 2
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- I never regarded these worthy men as enemies. And all of them, to some extent, cooperated with me as far as politics was concerned, except Awolowo! Awolowo was very, very rigid. I remember even before the elections, General Obasanjo, who was the Head of state, invited all the political leaders and candidates to see him at Dodan Barracks. So we went, and on that day, Chief Awolowo came in with a bandage on his hand, saying that he had an accident and couldn’t shake hands with me! Just because he didn’t want to shake hands with me!....
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March 28, 2006
President Shehu Shagari in Conversation with Pini Jason- Part 1
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Sahagari, Executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 1979 to December 1983, is easily the most understated, but vastly experienced Nigerian politician. He might appear to be a conservative, but his autobiography, Beckoned to Serve, betrays a streak of radicalism....
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March 06, 2006
Justice Chuwkudifu Oputa (Rtd) in Conversation with Nduka Otiono and Chris B. Ogbogbo, Ph.D.
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Interviewing Justice Chukwudifu Akunne OPUTA, 80, reminds one of a witticism attributed to the late African oral historian and philosopher, Hampate Ba -- that when an old man dies in Africa a whole library is lost. With three degrees in Economics, History and Law....
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February 25, 2006
Dr. Bala Takaya in Conversation with James Chiwo Avre
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Dr Bala Takaya has earned his reputation as an academic, author, businessman and politician. Born in Maduguva village, near the Cameroon border in Adamawa State, he attended Ahmadu Bello University, and obtained....
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February 23, 2006
Professor Dora Akunyili in Conversation with Adeze Ojukwu
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Professor Akunyili was appointed the Zonal Secretary of the Petroleum Special Trust Fund (PTF), 1996-2000, and in that position, coordinated projects in the five South Eastern States: Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo State. While at the PTF, she....
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January 23, 2006
Chief Anthony Enahoro in Conversation with Pini Jason
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Chief Anthony Enahoro, the Adollo of Uromi – one of Nigeria’s foremost anti-colonial and pro-democracy activists - was born on 22 July, 1923, in Uromi in the present Edo State of Nigeria. Chief Enahoro has had a long and distinguished career in the press, politics, the civil service and the pro-democracy movement.
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January 09, 2006
Prof. Grace Alele-Williams in Conversation with Toluwanimi Olujimi
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Professor Grace Awani Alele-Williams is an extraordinary academic pioneer and trailblazer. The first Nigerian female Vice-Chancellor [The University of Benin], Professor Alele-Williams was born on December 16, 1932 in Warri, Delta State. She....
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December 12, 2005
Prof. Ade Ajayi in Conversation with Toluwanimi Olujimi
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Prof. J.F. Ade Ajayi is one of Africa’s most distinguished intellectuals and academics. A former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Ajayi is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Ibadan, where he has also....
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November 28, 2005
Col. Joe Achuzie in Conversation with Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Born seventy years ago, in the present day Delta State, Col Joe Achuzie has been involved in the programmes and activities of Ohaneze Ndigbo, the apex socio-cultural organization in Igboland, for the past fifteen years. Since he ....
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November 15, 2005
Anthony Olubunmi Cardinal Okogie in Conversation with Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Anthony Cardinal Okogie is best known for his unyielding crusade for good governance, human rights, equity and social justice. Arguably, the most vocal Christian religious leader in Nigeria, Cardinal Okogie’s views are regularly sought after by the....
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October 31, 2005
Gen. Yakubu Gowon in Conversation with Pini Jason, Part 2
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Apart from that, when I was told that he was ill, I was not given the impression that his condition was that serious. So I said that I would probably come at the weekend, because I was very busy at the time; I was Head of State. Sadly, towards the weekend that I was planning to see him, my younger brother, Daniel, rang me to say that he had passed away. And I....
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October 16, 2005
Gen. Yakubu Gowon in Conversation with Pini Jason, Part I
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Gen (Dr.) Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s military Head of State for nine years, from 29 July 1966 to 29 July 1975, was born on 19 October 1934 in Pankshin, Plateau state. He was educated at St. Bartholomew School, Wusasa, Zaria from 1939 to 1949; Government College, Zaria (1950-53). He received his military training at....
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October 03, 2005
Mrs. Tejumade Alakija in Conversation with Toluwanimi Olujimi
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Mrs. Tejumade Alakija, daughter of the late Sir Adesoji Aderemi, the Ooni of Ife, was born on May 17, 1925, in Ile-Ife, into one of the most ancient and distinguished of royal families in Nigeria. An “authentic princess,” Mrs. Alakija received her early education at Aiyetoro Primary and Central Schools, Ile-Ife, from 1933 — 1937; and also at....
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September 19, 2005
Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu in Conversation with Pini Jason
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu has served twice as Nigeria’s Minister of Finance. He has also served his nation as Minister of National Planning as well as Transport. He attended Kings College, Lagos and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, graduating with B. Sc Econs. (1964), M.A Econs. (1965). He completed his PhD (which he began in 1966, but could not complete, because of....
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September 05, 2005
Mr. Gamaliel O. Onosode, OFR, in conversation with Pini Jason
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Mr. Gamaliel Oforitsenere Onosode was born in Sapele, Delta State on May 22, 1933. He attended Baptist School, Oginibo, Delta State between 1940 and 1946, and Government College Ughelli between 1947 and 1952. He graduated B.A (Hons) in Classics in 1957 from University College (now University) of Ibadan. Between 1957 and 1960, he worked with the Commonwealth Development Corporation as a Management trainee. An accomplished Management expert, he ....
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August 22, 2005
Dr. Sarah Jibril in conversation with Mohammed Jimoh Yahaya
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Dr. (Mrs.) Sarah Jibril hails from Pategi, Kwara State. She specialised in Educational, Social and Family Psychology and is today a consultant of repute. She is however more nationally known as perhaps the most consistent, and the first serious female presidential aspirant since 1992 to date. The devoutly....
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August 08, 2005
Dim. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu in Conversation with Prof. Nnaemeka Ikpeze and Nduka Otiono, Part II
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Before I go into that, it just occurred to me that I have talked about the Igbo, about the Yoruba, but have said nothing about the Hausa. The Hausa, I have always looked upon as an exotic lot. Being young, as I had....
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July 26, 2005
Dim. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu in Conversation with Prof. Nnaemeka Ikpeze and Nduka Otiono, Part I
Interview Series 
by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- By the 1950s, the legendary Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu had established himself as arguably West Africa’s preeminent businessman. Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu owned a successful transportation company and served severally on the boards of diverse corporations such as UAC (West Africa), the Nigerian Stock Exchange, and Shell-BP. He also....
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July 10, 2005
Chief Margaret Ekpo in Conversation with Onyeka Onwenu
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Margaret Ekpo, a giant of 20th century Nigerian politics, and a pioneer activist of women’s rights, is an icon. She was born in 1914 in Creek Town – in present day Cross River State - to Okoroafor Obiasulor, a native of Agulu-Uzo-Igbo near Awka in....
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June 27, 2005
Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti in Conversation with Pini Jason
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti was born into an extraordinarily gifted family on 2 August 1940 in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He first attended Mrs. Kuti’s Class, Abeokuta from 1945 to 1950, Abeokuta Grammar School (1951-56), Coventry Technical College, England (1957-58) and University of Manchester (1958-63). He qualified as ....
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June 13, 2005
Professor Tam David-West in Conversation with Uzor Maxim Uzoatu and Paul Odili
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Professor Tamunoemi Sokari David-West was born on August 26, 1936 in Buguma, Kalabari, Rivers State. He has had a long and distinguished career as an academic, virologist, civil/public servant and administrator. Professor West was educated at a number of universities around the world; beginning with the....
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May 30, 2005
Senator Francis Ellah in Conversation with Prof. Ossie Enekwe and Nduka Otiono
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Chief Francis Ellah is Eze Nwadei Ogbuehi of Ogba. A graduate of the University of London (University College, Ibadan), and a highly regarded elder statesman with outstanding political credentials, Chief Ellah is a former Second Republic Senator; a former Secretary to the....
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May 16, 2005
Balarabe Musa in Conversation with Sukoji Bakoji
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, former civilian governor of the Old Kaduna State in the Second Republic, and National Chairman of the umbrella opposition political parties, the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), is a radical of the socialist school or left wing idealogue.
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April 25, 2005
Chief Gani Fawehinmi in Conversation with Onyeka Onwenu (Part 2)
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- It is unfortunate that the pervasiveness of corruption in Nigeria has a deep root in the corridors of power, particularly in the National Assembly and the Executive. It is sad that in six years, we have had five Senate Presidents.
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April 18, 2005
Chief Gani Fawehinmi in Conversation with Onyeka Onwenu (Part 1)
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Chief Gani Fawehinmi was born in 1938 to Saheed Tugbobo and Alhaja Munirat Fawehinmi, the Seriki and Iya Suna of Ondo Moslems respectively, in Ondo town in Nigeria. He graduated from Holborn College of Law, University of London in 1954 and was called to the bar in 1955.
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April 05, 2005
Ernest Shonekan in Conversation with Pini Jason
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Chief Ernest Shonekan is from Abeokuta and holds the traditional title of Abese of Egbaland. He was educated at the CMS Grammar School, Lagos, and the University of London, graduating in Law in 1962, the year he was also called to the bar.
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March 21, 2005
Alhaji Abubakar Rimi in Conversation with Helon Habila
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Alhaji Abubakar Rimi was born in Rimi Village of Sumaila Local Government Area of Kano State, Nigeria, in 1940. Two decades later, he attended an instructor’s course at the institute of Administration, Zaria, which a year later became Ahmadu Bello University.
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March 07, 2005
Dr. Okechukwu Ikejiani in Conversation with Cyril Ibe, Professor Chieka Ifemesia, and the Committee of Intellectuals
Interview Series by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Dr. Okechukwu Ikejiani was born 87 years ago into the distinguished family of Reverend Canon Jeremiah and Madam Nwetulu Ikejiani of Obeagu Nri in Awka District of Anambra State Nigeria.
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February 15, 2005
Introduction: Where do we go from here?: Nigeria: A Meeting of the Minds
Achebe Interview Series 
by The Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Not long ago, my attention was caught by a radio news item about Africa. As I had come to expect, it was not good news, and it was not presented with, nor did it deserve, respect. It was something of a joke.
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