{"id":13733,"date":"2017-03-03T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13733"},"modified":"2017-05-24T13:05:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:05:17","slug":"kwofie-emmanuel-nwiah","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/kwofie-emmanuel-nwiah\/","title":{"rendered":"KWOFIE, Emmanuel Nwiah"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A;, MPHIL, MA, educationist, bom November 16, 1939, Atuabo, Southern Ghana, Ghana; married Grace Usoh, 1971, two sons, three daughters; Education: Atuabo Methodist Primary School, 1944-54, Mfantsi P.M. School, Cape Coast, Ghana, 1955-60, Uni versity of Ghana, Legon, 1961-66, Univer sity of Fordeaux, France, 1962-63, Univer sity ofYork, U.K., 1966-68, Indiana Univer sity, 1972-73, Laval University, 1974-75; Career: Appointed Lecturer II, University of Lagos, 1969-71; Teacher or Associate In structor,Universityof Indiana, Bloomington, USA, 1972-73; Lecturer I, University ofLa gos, 1972-76; Teacher\/Research Assistant &#038; Lecturer, University of Quebec, Canada, 1974-75; Senior Lecturer, University of La gos, 1976-79; Visiting Professor, University ofToronto, Canada, 1977; Associate Profes sor, UniversityofLagos, 1979-80; appointed Professor of French, (Language &#038; Linguis tics), University of Lagos, 1980-date; Visit ing Professor, University of Benin, Nigeria, 1991-92; Member, Linguistic Society of America, 1975-date; Member, Linguistic Association of Great Britain, 1976-date; Member, International Society of Functional Linguistics, 1977; Member, Linguistic Association of Canada &#038; US (Laws), 1980;Member, Linguistic Society of West Af rica; Secretary-general, World Environ mental Movement for Africa, 1993-96; Elder, Steward, Preacher and currently Pastor of a Pentecostal Church; Hob bies: walking, listening to music, news, reading, etc; Official Address: Depart ment of European Languages, Univer sity of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos State; Home: 5, Alvan Ikoku Crescent, Univer sity of Lagos, Campus, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13733","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13733","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13733"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}