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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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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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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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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by the Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Rigorous intellectual discussions with renowned experts of “the younger generation”, tackling the challenges facing Nigeria in Science and Medicine, Business and Entertainment, Politics, Law and Human Rights, Art and Literature, and Education.
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PRESS RELEASE
July 14th, 2006
After nearly 18 months, the Chinua Achebe Foundation is about to conclude its ambitious Interview project of conversations with Nigeria’s elder statesmen and women. The final interviews will be published shortly and the entire project will be concluded with an elaborate conversation with Professor Chinua Achebe.
In a 5 part series of rigorous intellectual discussions with renowned experts, The Achebe Colloquium will showcase profiles and roundtable discussions of world-class professionals in myriad fields, bringing to the fore levels of excellence and achievement in the younger generation that most Nigerians are not even aware of.
The first Colloquium – Science and Medicine - will be serialized in several media next week. The entire project will be conducted in a manner accessible to the majority of Nigerians and other interested persons around the globe.
We invite our brilliant youth to join us as we ponder our collective future together.
Sincerely,
Chinua Achebe Foundation Media Office
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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