{"id":10045,"date":"2017-02-08T14:26:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10045"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:03:17","slug":"okafor-professor-francis-chukwudum","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okafor-professor-francis-chukwudum\/","title":{"rendered":"OKAFOR, Prof. Francis Chukwudum"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D, University teacher, born August 14,1946, Nnewi, Enugu State; married Bridget Chika Achus, 1977, two sons, three daughters; Education: CMS Central School, Nnewi 1951-57, St Andrew&#8217;s College, Nnewi, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Career: Appointed Junior Research Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Social &#038; Economic Research, 1972-74; Assistant Lecturer, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 1978-79; Associate Professor, University of Benin, 1984-87; appointed Professor, University of Benin, since 1987; Provost, Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe, Onitsha, 1996-date; Chairman Committee of Provosts, Colleges of Education in Nigeria; member; member, Canadian Association of African Studies, 1976; member, International Geographical Union, 1990; member, Canadian Institute of Planners, 1978; Foreign Honours: Listed, Marguis World Who&#8217;s Who, 1996; Traditional Title: Omelukokwulu I of Nolen; Publication: Rural Systems and Planning, University of Benin, Department of Geography, 1986; including 8 books and 53 articles in learned journals; Hobbies: reading, gardening,table tennis; photography; Official Address: Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe, Onitsha; Telephone: 040-500821; Home:B 13, SSQ, University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10045","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10056,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10045\/revisions\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10045"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}