{"id":9958,"date":"2017-02-07T17:54:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9958"},"modified":"2017-12-04T18:10:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T17:10:05","slug":"cookey-prof-sylvanus-john-sodienye","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/cookey-prof-sylvanus-john-sodienye\/","title":{"rendered":"COOKEY, Prof. Sylvanus John Sodienye"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA (Hons). Ph.D, university teacher, administrator, born April 9, 1934, Opobo Rivers State; married Gladys Obioha 1963, three sons, one daughter; Education: St Michael&#8217;s School, Aba, 1940-47, Okrika Grammar School, Port Harcourt, 1948-52, University College (now University of Ibadan). Ibadan. 1956-61, London School of Economics, University of London, 1961-64; Lecturer, University of Lagos, 1964-65; Lec turer, University of Ibadan, 1965-66; Lecturer, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1966-70; Lec turer, University of London, 1970-71; Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1971-72; Associate Professor, State University of New York, USA, 1972-74; Chairman, Department of African Studies, State University of New York, USA, 1972-74; Professor of History and Chairman, Department of African Studies. Rutgers University. 1974-80; Professor of History, University of Port Harcourt, 1980-82; Dean, School of Humanities, Uniport, 1981-82; Chairman, Board of Uniport In vestments Limited; appointed Vice- Chancellor, University of Port Harcourt, 1982- 89; First Vice-President, Nigerian-American friendship Society, 1980-81; Chairman. Board of Trustees and Management, Kenneth Onwuka Dike Centre, Awka, Anambra State, since 1988; Publications: Britain and The Con go Question, 1885-1913 (1968), King Jaja of The Niger Delta, 1821-1891 (1974), Nok Studies on African Affairs, 1974-77, co-editor; Hobbies: tennis, fishing, writing; Official and Home Address: Department of History, Uni versity of Port Harcourt, PMB 5223, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9958","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9958","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\/9958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9958"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}