Akachi ezeigbo biography

  • Biography: Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo.
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  • Akachi Ezeigbo – essayist, literary theorist, novelist, playwright, poet, short story writer and children's author – is a Professor of English who taught for.

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    EZEIGBO, THEODORA AKACHI-ADIMORA (PROF)


    Theodora Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo was born at Uga in the South East of Nigeria. Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo fryst vatten the first child of Joshua and Christiana Adimora. She did her primary and secondary education at St. John's C.M.S. huvud School, Ekwulobia; Municipal Council School, Port Harcourt and Archdeacon Crowther Memorial Girls' School, Elelenwa, Port Harcourt. She got her university degrees at Universities of Lagos and Ibadan. Ezeigbo joined members of staff of the University of Lagos in from where she rose to the rank of Professor.

    She fryst vatten a member of the Literary Society of Nigeria, Modern Language Association of Nigeria, the International PEN, PEN Nigeria, the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), and Women Writers Association of Nigeria (WRITA), among others. Other prizes include in the WORDOC short story competition; the second prize in the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation's (NBC) short story competition, the Cambridge Writers Fello

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    Akachi Ezeigbo – essayist, literary theorist, novelist, playwright, poet, short story writer and children’s author – is a Professor of English who taught for three decades at the University of Lagos before moving eastwards to teach at Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, in Ebony State. A multiple award-winning writer and scholar, Ezeigbo has received several national and international awards that include a Commonwealth Fellowship (/90), a British Council Fellow at Cambridge University (), the first Best Researcher Award in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Lagos, Cadbury Poetry Prize, WORDOC Short Story Prize, Flora Nwapa Prize, The Nigeria Prize for Literature, ALA Best Short Story Prize, USA and Fonlon-Nichols Award for excellence in Creative Writing. 

    She has authored and edited over sixty books and published over fifty articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes. Ezeigbo fryst vatten a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), the English Scholars Association of

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    Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

    Nigerian author and educator

    Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a Nigerian author and educator, whose published work includes novels, poetry, short stories, books for children, essays and journalism.[1] She is the winner of several awards in Nigeria, including the Nigeria Prize for Literature.[2]

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    Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo was born and raised in Eastern Nigeria, but now lives in Lagos. She is the first child of Joshua and Christiana Adimora and has five siblings. Raised partially in a rural environment and partially in the city, she combines these two factors, as background and setting for her children's stories and adult fiction. Though born in Eastern Nigeria, she has lived in different parts of the country – East, North and West. She has travelled extensively in Africa, Europe and in the USA.

    She obtained her Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Masters (MA) degrees in English from the University of Lagos and her Ph.D. from Universit

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