{"id":14176,"date":"2017-03-07T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14176"},"modified":"2017-05-19T16:18:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:18:21","slug":"jemie-prof-onwuchekwa","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/jemie-prof-onwuchekwa\/","title":{"rendered":"JEMIE, Prof. Onwuchekwa"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA,MA,Ph.D;educationistjournalist; b: June 3,1940; ht: Item, Bende; so: Imo; m: Nneka Ani 1985;nc: two s, two d. ed: Methodist CentralSchool,Amaokwe Item,1946-52;HopeWaddell Training Institution,Calabar,1953-59;ColumbiaUniversity,NewYork,USA,1960- 63,1972; Harvard Univer-sity, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1963-44. cr:Instructor, Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, 1964-66; Instructor\/asst prof. English and Afro-American Studies, Manhattan CommunityCollege, City UniversityofNew York,USA, 1967-72; assoc. prof. English andAfro-American Studies,ManhattanCommunityCol-lege, CityUniversityofNew York, USA,1972-73;Lecturer(part-time), Columbia University, New York, USA 1970-73; Lecturer (part-time), Swarthmore College, USA, 1972-73; a-prof. English and Afro-American Studies, University of Min-nesota, USA,1973-77; Readerand Head,Departmentof MassCommunication, InstituteofManagement and Technology, Enugu, 1977-82; Editor\/Columnist\/Editorial PageEditor\/Chairman, EditorialBoard, Guar-dian Newspapers, Lagos, 1982-84; SupervisingEditor, Guardian Expressand LagosLtfe, 1985-86; Senior mm. Editorial Board, Guardian Newspapers Limited, 1986-1989; Editor-in-Chief, Businessday, publ:Biafra Requiem, PapuaPocketPoets,PortMoresby, 1970; VoyageandotherPoems, Pan-African PocketPoets, 1971;Langston Hughes:AnIntroduction To The Poetry, ColumbiaUniversityPress,NewYork,1976;co-author, Towardthe Decolonization ofAfrican Literature, Fourth Dimen-sion,Enugu, 1980; hob:football, tennis,piano;off: BusinessDay,AmuwoOdofin,Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14176","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14176","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14176"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}