{"id":17963,"date":"2017-03-28T16:49:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17963"},"modified":"2017-05-31T12:23:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T11:23:12","slug":"ubamadu-dr-hyacinth-onyeoziri","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ubamadu-dr-hyacinth-onyeoziri\/","title":{"rendered":"UBAMADU, Dr. Hyacinth Onyeoziri"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, M.Sc, D.Ed, educationist, born August 20, 1936, Amuzu, Mbaise, Imo State; married Marie-Celine Chinyere Mbawuike 1958, five sons; Education: St Finnbarrs Catholic School, Okpala, 1945, Holy Ghost College, Umuahia, 1949-52, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA, 1964-71; School Headmaster, 1953-64; Instruc tor, Language Laboratory, University of Kansas, USA, 1967-70; Assistant Lecturer, 1970; Instructor, African History, Ottawa University, Kansas, USA, 1971; started and organised the Department of Afro-American Studies, Western Illinois University, Macomb, 1971-72; Chairman, Afro-American Studies Department, Western Illinois University, Macomb, USA, 1971-78; Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Benin, 1979; Head, Department of Educational Psy chology and Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Benin; member, African Studies Association; member, National Council of the Social Studies; member, National Association of Teachers of English; member, Phi Delta Kappa, National Geographic Society; member, Human Relations Commission, Los Angeles, 1966; member, TOYL (Institute of International Education), 1967-68; member, Black Merit Academy, 1973; Publications: Black Scholars On Higher Education In The 70s, contributor (ECCA Publications, 1974), Poets Are Made Not Born (Western Illinois University, 1973), A Handbook ForProspec tive AfricanStudents To The USA, (Washing ton DC, University Press of America, 1974); Hobbies: photography, reading, collecting anti quities, gardening, lawn tennis; Official Ad dress: Faculty of Education, University of Benin; Home: 31A Ihama Road, GRA, Benin City, Bendel State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17963","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17963","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\/17963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17963"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}