Biographical overview
h: Distinguished Professor of Literature, by Board of Trustees, State University of New York, Binghamton. 2004; Publication: The Last Duty, 1972; The Victims, Longman, London, 1970; Tides, 1993; The Epic in Africa. Columbia University Press, New York, 1979: Myth in Africa. Cambridge University Press, 1983; The Heritage of African Poetry, Longman, London, 1985; The Oral Performance in Africa, Spectrum, Ibadan, 1988, African Oral Literature (Indiana, 1992), Once Upon a Kingdom (Indiana, 1998), The African Diaspora, Indiana. 1999; hob: jazz music, lawn tennis, off: Department of Africana Studies. University of Binghamton, New York, USA.
Biographical record
- Title
- Prof.
- Surname
- OKPEWHO
- First Name
- Isidore
- Gender
- Male
- Source of Publication
- NIBC Who's Who (3rd Edition)
- Date of Birth
- 9 November 1941
- Status
- Alive
- Date of Death
- 4 September 2016
- State of Origin
- Delta State
- Place of Birth
- Agbor,
- Father's Name
- David Okpewho,
- Father's Status
- N/A
- Mother's Status
- N/A
- Marital Status
- Married
- Name of Spouse
- Obiageli Okpewho
- Names of Children
- Ediru, Ugo, Afigo, and Onome,
- Profession
- Academia
- Working Experience
- Federal Ministry of Education,
Federal Ministry of External Affairs
Editor, Longman publishers,
Lecturer, University at Buffalo
lecturer The State University of New York
Lecturer University of Ibadan
Lecturer Harvard University
lecturer Binghamton University
President of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA) - Education Level
- Tertiary
- Schools Attended with Dates
- St Patrick's College in Asaba,.. University College, Ibadan,. University of Denver (1976) .. University of London (2000)
- Have you ever been a member of any political party?
- N/A
- Membership of International Organizations
- fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1982, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1982, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1988, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute in 1990, National Humanities Center in 1997, and 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship.
- Awards and Honours
- fellowships in the humanities from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1982), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1982), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (1988), the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University (1990), National Humanities Center in North Carolina (1997), and the Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2003). He was also elected Folklore Fellow International by the Finnish Academy of the Sciences in Helsinki (1993)
1972: Winner of the African Arts Prize for Literature, for manuscript of The Last Duty
1993: Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa), for Tides
1998: Dean's Award for Honors Teaching Excellence, SUNY Binghamton
2010: Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) in humanities - Other Relevant Information
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_Okpewho
- Source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_Okpewho
Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_Okpewho
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