Chukwuma AZUONYE

University Lecturer

B.A, Ph.D, university teacher, born March 31, 1945, Okigwe, Isuikwuato-Okigwe, Imo State; mar ried Chioma Ulumma Nwogu 1976, three sons, one daughter: Education: Okigwe National Grammar School, Umuna, 1959-63, Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar, 1964-65, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. 1966-72, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, 1973- 76,1978-79; Career: Appointed English and Arts Master, Anglican Grammar School, Oraukwu, February-June 1966; Assistant Commercial Artist, Information Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Enugu, June-Sep tember, 1966; War Correspondent, War In formation Bureau, July-October 1967; Co ordinator, People's War Documentation Project, War Information Bureau, 1967-70; Junior fellow in English, University of Ni geria, Nsukka, 1972-73; Lecturer in Oral Lit erature, Department of Linguistics and Afri can Languages, University of Ibadan, 1979.85; Senior Lecturer in Oral Literature and Stylistic, University ofNigeria, Nsukka, since 1985; acting Head, Department of Lin guistics and Nigerian Languages, University ofNigeria, since 1985; editor, UwaNdilgbo, Journal of Igbo Life and Culture, since 1984 editor, Nsukka Journal of Linguistics…