Obianuju Catherine Acholonu born 26 Oct 1951 Orlu, Nigeria attended secondary schools in Orlu before gaining a master's degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Dusseldorf, Germany. She has taught at Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri since 1978. Oct or OCT may refer to: A prefix to denote the number 8 The month of October Oxytocin challenge test This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Orlu is the home of enterprise in Nigeria. ...

Acholonu is a writer, researcher and former lecturer on African Cultural and Gender Studies. She is the author of over 15 books, most of which are used in secondary schools and universities in Nigeria, and in African Studies Departments in USA and Europe.

Acholonu’s works and projects have enjoyed the collaboration and the support of United States Information Service (USIS), the British Council, the Rockefeller Foundation. The British Council is a partly UK Government-funded cultural relations organisation and a registered charity in the United Kingdom. ... The Rockefeller Foundation is a charitable organization based in New York City. ...

In 1989 Acholonu toured educational institutions in USA, lecturing on her works under the United States International Visitor’s Program.

In 1986 she was the only Nigerian, and one of only 2 Africans to participate in the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on “Women, Population and Sustainable Development: the Road to Rio, Cairo and Beijing”, which was organized jointly by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) ,the Division for the Advancement of Women, and the Division for Sustainable Development, and took place in Dominican Republic focusing on the mainstreaming of gender into the Plans of Action of the UN world conferences of Rio, Beijing and Cairo. Prof Acholonu holds several awards from home and abroad.

In 1990 she was honored with the Fulbright Scholar in Residency award by the US government, during which she lectured at 4 colleges of the Westchester Consortium for International studies, NY, USA.

She is listed in the International Who’s Who of world Leadership, USA; the African Women Writers’ Who’s Who; the Top 500 Women in Nigeria; Who’s Who in Nigeria; and the International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, published in Cambridge, UK.

She was recently appointed African Renaissance Ambassador by the African Renaissance Conference with head quarters in Benin Republic.

Catherine Acholonu is Nigeria’s sole representative at the global Forum of Arts and Culture for the Implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNFAC). Before this new assignment, she was the Special Adviser on Arts and Culture to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 1999-2002 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-1865) The majority of this article is about heads of states. ...

Monographs

• In the Heart of Biafra. Owerri: Totan Publishers, 1970.
• Nigeria in the Year 1999. Owerri: Totan Publishers, 1985.
• The Spring's Last Drop. Owerri: Totan Publishers, 1985.
• Trial of the Beautiful Ones. Owerri: Totan Publishers, 1985.
• The Deal and Who is the Head of State. Owerri: Totan Publishers, 1986.
• The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano: An Anthropological Research. Owerri: AFA Publications, 1989.
• Motherism: The Afrocentric Alternative to Feminism. Owerri: AFA Publications, 1995

Articles and Chapters

• Acholonu and Joyce Ann Penfield. "Linguistic Processes of Lexical Innovation in Igbo." Anthropological Linguistics. 22 (1980). 118-130.
• "The Role of Nigerian Dancers in Drama." Nigeria Magazine. 53.1 (1985). 33-39.
• Acholonu, Catherine Obianuju, "The Home of Olaudah Equiano -- A Linguistic and Anthropological Search," The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 22.1 (1987). 5-16.
• "L'Igbo Langue Litteraire: Le Cas du Nigeria." (Literary Igbo Language: The Case of Nigeria.) Notre Librairie: Revue du Livre: Afrique, Caraibes, Ocean Indien. 98 (Jul-Sept 1989). 26-30.
• "Mother was a Great Man." The Heinemann Book of African Women's Writing. Ed. Charlotte H. Bruner. London: Heinemann, 1993. 7-14.
• "Motherism: The Afrocentric Alternative." Ishmael Reed's Konch Magazine. Online: http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/CatherineAcholonu.html. (March-April 2002).

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