{"id":15998,"date":"2017-03-16T14:28:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15998"},"modified":"2017-05-31T07:51:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T06:51:56","slug":"vincent-prof-theophilus","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/vincent-prof-theophilus\/","title":{"rendered":"VINCENT, Prof. Theophilus"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA,(Hons), Ph.D, educationist, born October 17, 1939, Baranyonwa-DereOgoni, Rivers State;married Miriam Ngozi Akaose 1971, one daughter; Education: Wesley School, Port Harcourt, 1946-47, KibangaMethodistSchool,Gokhana, Ogoni, 1948-50, Lohum Methodist School, Akoli, Bende, 1951, Practising School, Uzuakoli, 1952-53, Umuagbai Methodist School, Ndoki, 1953, Methodist Secondary School. Uzuakoli, 1954-60,University College (now University of Ibadan), Ibadan, 1961-64, 1964-67; appointedAssistantLecturer, English Department, University of Ibadan,. 1967-69; Lecturer, University of Lagos, 1970-75, Senior Lecturer, Unilag, 1975; appointed Professor of English, 1980; Head, Department ofEnglish, Unilag; member, Society for Caribbean Linguistics, since 1972; member, International Federation of Modern Languages and Literatures, since 1975; member, West African Modern Languages Association, since 1976; member, International Comparative Literature Association; member, African Literature Association of America; member, Board of Governors(Nigerian BroadcastingCorporation) and Federal Radio Corpqration of Nigeria, 1976; Chairman, Rivers State Council for Arts and Culture, 1976-79; editor, Black Orpheus, since 1977; editor, Lagos Review of English Studies; Publication: A selection of African Poetry, co-editor (Longmans, 1976); Black African Writing: A Festac Anthology, editor (Lagos, Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation, 1981): Hobbies: bird watching, broadcasting, lawntennis, tabletennis, walking;OfficialAddress: Department ofEnglish, Facul ty ofArts, University ofLagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos; Home: 4, MbonuOjike Close, University of Lagos Campus, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15998","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15998","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\/15998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15998"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}