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My mentors are Flora Nwapa, my Uncle Chinua and all those others that came before me. One of my favorite books is one I read recently ‘I do Not Come to You by Chance’ by Tricia Adaobi Nwaubani.
USAfrica & CLASSmagazine Profile Q&A: ‘Getting to the Top no matter what happened to you at the Bottom’ — the versatile ways of Okechukwu Ofili —— Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, The Black Business Journal, USAfrica e-group and Nigeria360@yahoogroups e-group —— Author, mechanical engineer, graduate of the University of Houston, speaker and sketch artist now based in Nigeria, OKECHUKWU OFILI [...]
He is reputed as the first Nigerian attorney at law in the State of Texas.
He was the founding president of the Nigerian Foundation and has actively devoted many years of service to many community, faith-based groups and business organizations.
Relevance of George W. Bush into the Obama era and other critical issues in Walter Brasch’s new book Special to USAfricaBOOKS Review, USAfricaonline.com, USAfrica The Newspaper, Houston, CLASSmagazine and The Black Business Journal With wit and wisdom in his latest book titled Sinking the Ship of State, Walter M. Brasch, professor of journalism at Bloomsburg University, author of 16 [...]
In all of these essays and more, we can readily discern a tentative, but increasingly confident approach towards a definitive statement concerning what Dr. Madubuike was clearly beginning to be convinced was an inevitable linkage between a normative species of African Literature which derived from an authentic elucidation of African cultural values, and the inevitable obligation to fight, through it, for, and promote ‘African development’. Now, ‘African development’, in this context, was not to be construed merely as just a socio-economic term. It is in fact an omnibus term. It implied the cultural and psychological struggle for self-identification in reaction against silly European notions of the non-identity, if you like, of the African person. It implied the political obligation of the African writer, and the critic of his writings, to deploy their talents in support of the struggle to liberate all Africans from their colonial masters. And it also implicated a clear duty, both on the part of the creative writer and of the literary critic of his offerings, to come up with a canonical definition of the Africanness in African literature.
Uwem notes that: “I was inspired to write by the people who sit around my village church to share palm wine after Sunday Mass, by the Bible, and by the humour and endurance of the poor.”
