{"id":14900,"date":"2017-03-09T23:37:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14900"},"modified":"2017-11-02T09:57:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T08:57:15","slug":"madubuike-dr-ihechukwu-chiedozie","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/madubuike-dr-ihechukwu-chiedozie\/","title":{"rendered":"MADUBUIKE, Dr. Ihechukwu Chiedozie"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MA, Ph.D, educationist, administrator, born July 9, 1944, Isuochi Okigwe, Imo State; mar ried Ada Nwokoro 1977, two sons, three daugh ters; Education: Isuochi Methodist Central School, 1950-55, Holy Trinity School, 1955-56, Duke Town Secondary School, Calabar, 1957-61, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, 1963-65, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, 1966-70, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York USA, 1970-73, University ofParis, France, 1971-72; appointed Assistant Professor of African Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA, 1973-74; Professor of African Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 1974-76; appointed Senior Lecturer, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, 1976-77; Principal Lecturer, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, 1977-79; member, Imo State House of Assembly, 1979-83; appointed Com missioner, Governor&#8217;s Office, Imo State, October 1979; Federal Minister of Education, 1979-81; Commissioner for Finance, ImoState, 1981-83; editor, Journal of Black Studies, 1973-77; Executive Director and Chairman, Editorial Board, Champion Newspapers Limi ted, since 1988; member, African Literature Association, USA; member, Full Gospel Men&#8217;s Fellowship International; Political Party: member, banned Nigerian People&#8217;s Party (NPP), 1979-83; Traditional Titles: OnuneKwuruoha I of Isuochi; Omenma I of Nneato; OsoezeI ofOkigwe; Publications:A Handbook of African Names (Three Continents Press, 1976), Toward The Decolonisation ofAfrican Literature, co-author(Enugu, ForthDimension, (1980), TheSociology ofTheSenegaleseNovel (Three Continents Press, 1983), Igbo Poetry, (1980); Hobbies: writing, squash, tennis; Official Address: Champion House, Isolo Industrial Scheme, PO Box 2276, Oshodi, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 523841; Home: 5B Child Close, Apapa, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 874741.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14900","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14900","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14900"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}