{"id":10815,"date":"2017-02-17T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10815"},"modified":"2017-11-09T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:08:18","slug":"okorafor-dr-apia-ekpe","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okorafor-dr-apia-ekpe\/","title":{"rendered":"OKORAFOR,Dr Apia Ekpe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born January 1, 1940 at Ihechiowa&#8217; Imo State; Education: Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar, 1952- 56; Methodist College, Uzuakoli, 1957-58; University of Ibadan, September 1962 to June, 1965; University of Chicago, U.S.A. September 1966 &#8211; August 1969; Qualifications: B.Sc. (Hons.) Economics, Ph.D. in Demography; Married with five children; Appointment held: Reader and Head, Department of Economic, University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Clubs and other Associations: Member, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, member, Nigerian Economic Society, member, The Royal Economic Society, England; member, The Population Association of Nigeria. Career. Pivotal teacher, 1959 &#8211; August 1962; Re search Assistant, July 1965 to June 1966 at the University of Ibadan; Federal Government Statistician. July to August 1966; Research Fellow, October 1970 to December, 1972; University of Ghana, Lagos, Ghana, Lecturer, Grade -II, Lecturer, Grade I; Senior Lecturer, October 1976 to September, 1979 and Reader in Economics, October, 1979; Publications &#8211; Several publications * including A Comparative Analysis of the Demographic Characteristics of Ghana and Uganda; Demographic Survey of the Eastern Region of Ghana, &#8220;Co-authors to several other publications including &#8220;Communication and Population Change in Africa,&#8221; &#8220;The Population of Igboland,&#8221; &#8220;Ownership and Control of Factors of Production in the Nigerian Economy,&#8221; Hobbies: Lawn and table tennis; gardening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10815","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10815","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\/10815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10815"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}