{"id":14914,"date":"2017-03-10T00:48:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T23:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=14914"},"modified":"2017-05-26T11:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T10:00:35","slug":"maduka-prof-chidi-thomas","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/maduka-prof-chidi-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"MADUKA, Prof. Chidi Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date of Birth: Monday (Eke) 4″‘ March, 1940 State of Origin: Anambra Local Government Area: Anaocha Village\/Town: Neni ContactAddress: Dept ofEnglish Studies, University of Port Harcourt Contact Telephone: 234-8056i 06321 Email Address: profmaduka@yahoo.com ProfessorChidiThomas Maduka was born on 4″‘ March 1940 in Neni. Anaocha Local Government Area ofAnambra State. He is a top academic who from his own experience believes in hard work as the ultimate means to success. Education \u2022 Ibo National High School Aba, WASC Grade 1. 1958 \u2022 St Charles College Onitsha. Higher Elementary T.T.C 1960 \u2022 Alvan Ikoku College ol”Education Owerri, N.C.E. English\/French 1965 \u2022 Laval University Quebec Canada. BA French Magna Cum Laude;( 1968) MAMagna Cum Laude (1970) \u2022 Universityof Iowa. Iowa City USA. PhDComparative Literature 1976 Job Experience and Records \u2022 Assistant Lecturer. Deptof French.Alvan Ikoku College ofEducation Owerri 1966 \u2022 TeachingFellow.( French ) University ofIowa. IowaCity USA 1970 1974 \u2022 Assistant Professor. English. University ofUtah. Salt Lake City USA 1974 2977 \u2022 Lecturer (French) University of Moncton. MonctonNew BrunswickCanada 1973 \u2022 Senior Lecturer.Comparative Literature, University of Port Harcourt 1981 1989 Professorol*Comparative Literature. University of Port Harcourt 1990 \u2022 Visiting Scholar Dept ol” English University ol” Maiduguri Maiduguri 1987 1988 \u2022 Visiting Professor. Dept of English. University ol” Uyo 1999-2000 Contribution to Community Development \u2022 Chairman Committee for the Reactivation ofthe National DiagnosticCentre Neni 1997 2000 \u2022 Educational Foundation. Ezineni Village Neni 2000 \u2022 Chairman CatholicMen’s Organisation Chapel ol’the Annunciation University of PortIlareourl2000- 2004 Publications The Intellectual and the Power structure: Abrahams, Achebe Wright and Flaubert ( 1999) \u2022 Power Mike: The African Strongest Man who ruled the world ( 1997) \u2022 Across Frontiers: Comparative Literature and National Integration ( 1994) \u2022 Fundamentals ol*poetry ( with Dr. Eyoh) 2000 \u2022 New Poetry fromAfrica (CO-edited with Carr.Johnson and Obafemi) 1996 \u2022 Gabriel Okaro : Papers on his 70″‘ BirthdayAnniversary (in press) He studied Anglophone. Francophone African Diaspora and World Literature asanacademic discipline andscientific breakthrough Awards and Prizes \u2022 Service Award from University ofPort Harcourt Merit Award (2002)by theAssociation ol”Anambra Student Development Union. RiversState \u2022 Award of Excellence .2003by the National Union ofAnambra State Students.University of Port Ilareourl Chapter Membership of Learned and Professional Association \u2022 Member. Treasure Literary Society ofNigeria \u2022 Member. Linguistic Association of Nigeria Member. Igbo Studies Association \u2022 Member. Modern Languages Association ofNigeria \u2022 Member. West African Association ol”Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies His advice to the Youths: “Be honest, have moral probity and work hard”. To theLeaders, – “note Good Leaders must be dedicated to the welfare and long term success ofthe people not personal gain and praise to the Leader “. He further advised ALL NDI IGBO “to work hard to ensure that our identity is guaranteed in the world cultural heritage. Igbo Language must therefore be given a Pride of Place in our Daily Lives. Every parent must teach His \/her children Igbo “. Professor Maduka is happily married<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14914","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14914","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\/14914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14914"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}