BA,MA,Ph.D;educationistjournalist; b: June 3,1940; ht: Item, Bende; so: Imo; m: Nneka Ani 1985;nc: two s, two d. ed: Methodist CentralSchool,Amaokwe Item,1946-52;HopeWaddell Training Institution,Calabar,1953-59;ColumbiaUniversity,NewYork,USA,1960- 63,1972; Harvard Univer-sity, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1963-44. cr:Instructor, Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, 1964-66; Instructor/asst prof. English and Afro-American Studies, Manhattan CommunityCollege, City UniversityofNew York,USA, 1967-72; assoc. prof. English andAfro-American Studies,ManhattanCommunityCol-lege, CityUniversityofNew York, USA,1972-73;Lecturer(part-time), Columbia University, New York, USA 1970-73; Lecturer (part-time), Swarthmore College, USA, 1972-73; a-prof. English and Afro-American Studies, University of Min-nesota, USA,1973-77; Readerand Head,Departmentof MassCommunication, InstituteofManagement and Technology, Enugu, 1977-82; Editor/Columnist/Editorial PageEditor/Chairman, EditorialBoard, Guar-dian Newspapers, Lagos, 1982-84; SupervisingEditor, Guardian Expressand LagosLtfe, 1985-86; Senior mm. Editorial Board, Guardian Newspapers Limited, 1986-1989; Editor-in-Chief, Businessday, publ:Biafra Requiem, PapuaPocketPoets,PortMoresby, 1970; VoyageandotherPoems, Pan-African PocketPoets, 1971;Langston Hughes:AnIntroduction To The Poetry, ColumbiaUniversityPress,NewYork,1976;co-author, Towardthe Decolonization ofAfrican Literature, Fourth Dimen-sion,Enugu, 1980; hob:football, tennis,piano;off: BusinessDay,AmuwoOdofin,Lagos.
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