Peter P EKEH,

Administrator, Academia

B.Sc, M.A, Ph.D; university lecturer, administrator; b: August 8, 1937; p: Okpara Inland; ht: Okpara Inland, lga: Ethiope East; so: Delta; m: Helen Akarue, 1965; nc: four s, one d; ed: Catholic Primary School Okpara Inland, 1944-51; St. Peter Clavers College, Aghalokpe, Sapele, 1952-56; University of Ibadan, 1961-64; Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1965- 66; University of California, Berkeley, California, 1966-70; cr: asst. prof. Sociology, University of California, Riverside, 1970-73; Research f. Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1973-74; Lecturer/snr. Lecturer/prof. Political Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, 1974-89; ch. Ibadan University Press, 1985-88; prof/ch. Department of African American Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo, since 1989; ch: Urhobo Historical Society, since 1999; mm: International Sociological Association, 1975-83; African Studies Association, 1989-2000; ah: Cadbury f. University of Birmingham, England, 1978; f. Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars; publ: Social Exchange Theory, Harvard University Press, 1974; Federal Character and Federalism in Nigeria, Heinemann, 1989; Nigeria since Independence: The First Twentyfive years…