{"id":16593,"date":"2017-03-20T16:03:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16593"},"modified":"2017-06-07T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T16:20:30","slug":"nwankwor-nwachukwu-azu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nwankwor-nwachukwu-azu\/","title":{"rendered":"NWANKWOR, Nwachukwu Azu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA. MA, author, publisher, born August 19, 1942, Ajalli, Aguata, Anambra State; married Eunice Medi 1976, one son, one daughter; Education: Eastern Mennonite College, Har risonburg, Virginia, USA, 1966, Duquesne University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA, 1967; worked at Gulf Oil Corporation Head quarters, Pittsburg, as a consultant for Nigeria and corporate strategies, June-September, 1967; worked in the Propaganda Directorate of Biafra, September-November, 1967; ap pointed editor, Biafra Newsletter, 1967-69; cofounder and first Managing Director, Nwamife Publishers Limited, Enugu, 1970-76; Managing Director, and later Group Chair man, Fourth Dimension Publishing Company Limited, Enugu, since 1977; Chairman, Ash Grove Nigeria Limited (an estate development company); co-founder. Chairman and Chief Executive, KOSM, West Africa Limited; life Vice-President, Onitsha Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Mines and Agriculture; Political Party: Gubernatorial Candidate. People&#8217;s Redemption Party (PRP), Anambra State, 1979-83; Traditional Title: Ikeogu 1, Ogbu Efi, Ogbu lnyinya; Awards: winner, Distinguished Authors Award, Obafemi Awolowo University Book Fair, 1988; Honorary Degree: Honorary Doctor of Letters (Hon D.Litt), The Shaw University Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 1986; Publications: Nigeria: The Challenge of Biafra (London, Rex Collings, 1972); Nigeria: My People, My Vision (Enugu, Fourth Dimension, 1980); Can. Nigeria Survive? (Enugu, Fourth Dimension, 1981); Nigeria: After Oil, WhatNext? (Enugu, Fourth Dimension, 1982); How Jim Nwobodo Rules Anambra State (Enugu, -Frontline, 1983); Corruption in Anambra State (Enugu, Frontline, 1983): Civilianised Soldiers: Army- Civilian Government for Nigeria (Enugu, Fourth Dimension, 1984); National Con sciousness for Nigeria (Enugu, Fourth Dimen sion, 1985); The Igbo Leadership and the Future of Nigeria (Enugu, Fourth Dimension, 1985); Nigerian: Development Strategy for the People&#8217;s Economy (Enugu Fourth Dimension, 1986); Justice (Sedition Charge, Imprisonment and Acquital of Chief Arthur Nwankwo), (Enugu, Fourth Dimension, 1986); Arthur Nwankwo: Thoughts on Nigeria (Enugu, Fourth Dimension, 1986); Military Option to Democracy: Class, Power and Violence in. Nigerian Politics (Enugu, Fourth Dimension, 1987); The Power Dynamics of Nigerian Politics (Enugu, Fourth Dimension, 1988); Hobbies: reading, writing, table tennis; Of ficial Address: Plot 64A City Layout, PMB 01164, Enugu, Anambra State, Telephone: (042) 334197, 339969, 335640; Home: Plot 5B, Ikenga Street, City Layout, Enugu, Anambra State, Telephone: (042) 255247, 334197.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16593","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16593","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16593"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}