{"id":10781,"date":"2017-02-16T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10781"},"modified":"2017-11-20T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T11:01:04","slug":"okonkwo-prof-juliet-ijeoma","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okonkwo-prof-juliet-ijeoma\/","title":{"rendered":"OKONKWO, Prof. Juliet Ijeoma"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, M.Litt Ph D; university teacher Born January 1,1939; Hometown: Nnewi, State of Origin: Anambra; Married: Samuel Chukwuenye Okonkwo 1966; No of Children: three sons,one daughter; EDUCATION: Central School, Egbu-Owerri; Central School&#8217; Nkwerre; Queen&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1950-54; University of lbadan, Ibadan&#8217; 1956-61; Somerville College, University of Oxford, England, 1962-65 CAREER-&#8216; Senior. English Mistress, Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan 1961-62- Post Doctoral Research f. University of lbadan, 1965-66; Lecturer II English University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1966-73; Lecturer 1,1973-75; snr. Lecturer in English, 1975-79; Reader in English, 1979-84; prof. English, 1984 Head Department of English, 1981 -86; Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts 1984 ag&#8217; Dean of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1984; mm: University Publications Committee, 1978-81; University Senate, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1981 -86; publ: Adam and Eve: lgbo Marriage in the Nigerian Novel, in lgbo Traditional Life, Culture and Literature, Conch Magazine Company New York, 1971; Technique as Theme in Obinkaram Echewa&#8217;s &#8216;The Land&#8217;s Lord&#8217; in Modern Essays on African Literature: Studies in the African Novel Ibadan University Press, 1986; From Allegory to Exposition: Developing Techniques in the African Novel, in Literature and Society, 1986; Cyprian Ekwensi Nigeria&#8217;s Master Popular Novelist, in The Essential Ehvensi. Heinemann 1987; and numerous articles, hob: reading, lawn and table tennis, badminton&#8217; music, gardening, farming, swimming, off: Department of English University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, tel: 042-771911, res: 601, Odin Street University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, tel: 042-771172. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10781","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10781","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}