{"id":9566,"date":"2017-02-04T06:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T05:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9566"},"modified":"2017-05-18T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T14:02:09","slug":"eyo-professor-ekpo-okpo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/eyo-professor-ekpo-okpo\/","title":{"rendered":"EYO, Professor Ekpo Okpo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MA, Ph.D, anthropologist, archaeologist, admin istrator, born July 28, 1931, Calabar, Cross River State; married Augusta Tinuade 1967, two sons; Education: Creek Town School, Calabar, Duke Town School, Calabar, Insti tute of Archaeology, University of London, England, 1957-60,Pembroke College, Uni versity of Cambridge, England, 1960-63, University of Ibadan, 1970-74; Career: Appointed Museum Technical Assistant, De partment of Antiquities, 1957; Archaeolo gist and Ethnographer, Department of An tiquities, 1963-67; Director, Federal Depart ment of Antiquities, Lagos, 1968, later Di rector General, National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Lagos, up to 1986; appointed Professor of African Stud ies, Universityof Maryland, Baltimore, USA, 1986; associate, Museums Association of Great Britain and Ireland; member, French Academy ofArts; former President, Museum Association of Tropical Africa; Past Presi dent, Organisation ofMuseums, Monuments and Sites of Africa; former Vice-President, International Council ofMuseums; one-time Vice-President, Commonwealth Association ofMuseums; Trustee, Leakey Foundation for Research into the Origins of Man, his Behaviour and Suvival; Award: recipient, Gordon Child Best Student ofthe Year Prize for Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University of London; National Honour: honoured with the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic, 1980; Publications: Highlightsfrom 2000 Years ofNigerian Art, Lagos, 1970; and numerous articles on archaeology in scholarly journals; Hobbies: swimming,singing; Official Address: Cala bar, Cross River State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9566","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9566","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9566"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}