{"id":11099,"date":"2017-02-20T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T10:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11099"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:28:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T09:28:29","slug":"okpewho-prof-isidore","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okpewho-prof-isidore\/","title":{"rendered":"OKPEWHO, Prof. Isidore (Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A, Ph.D; university teacher, administrator: DOB: November 9, 1941; State of Origin: Delta; Married: Mary Chidi. 1974; No of Children: two sons, two daughters; EDUCATION: St Patrick&#8217;s College. Asaba. 1954-58; Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Ibadan, 1959-61; University of Ibadan. 1961-64; University of Denver. Colorado. USA. 1972-76; University of London: CAREER: Publisher, Longman Nigeria Limited. 1965- 72; Teaching fellow. University of Denver, USA. 1972-74; asst. prof. English. State University, Buffalo, New York. 1974-76; Lecturer. University of Ibadan, 1976; prof. English. University of Ibadan, 1983; currently, prof. African Studies, State University, New York. Binghamton, USA, since 1991; Harvard University; mm: Research Advisory Council for Harvard&#8217;s Centre for the Study of World Religions; American Literature Association: American Folklore Society; Editorial Board of Oral Tradition and Research in African Literature; fellow Guggenheim Fellow, 2004; State University of New York. Binghamton, since 1991: ah: African Arts Prize for Literature, for Manuscript of Novel, Degree of Doctor of Literature (D.Lit), University of London; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11099","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11099","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\/11099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11099"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}