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Name
  
Ebere Onwudiwe


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Born
  
10 October 1952 (age 71) Isu-Njaba, Nigeria (
1952-10-10
)

Occupation
  
Economist, political scientist

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Ebere Onwudiwe is a Nigerian political-economist who resides in Abuja, Nigeria and is a CEO of FUTeLIV Konsult.

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Biography

His undergraduate education was at the American College of Switzerland, 1979 and University of Science and Arts, 1980. He received a M.S. and PH.D in political science from Florida State University, Tallahassee.

He taught political science and economics at Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio where he was at different times director of the National Resource Centre for African Studies, and the Executive Director of the Centre for International Studies. He has also been a visiting professor at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Antioch College, Yellow Springs and the United Nations University of Peace, Costa Rica. In 2013 he was appointed as the Executive Director of the Ken Nnamani Centre for Leadership and Development.

Professional career

Onwudiwe is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Development Leadership Institute, Port Harcourt, Rivers State of Nigeria, is a member of the Governing Council of Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State and a member of the Board of Ojukwu Center, Owerri, Imo State, as a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Democracy and Development.

Onwudiwe has served as the Executive Director of the Ken Nnamani Centre for Leadership and Delvelopment, was a governance consultant with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was a co-writer of the 2007 African Governance Report recently published by the Oxford University Press, has served in national committees of Federal Government of Nigeria and the Government of the Federal Capital Territory, and was a consultant to the Federal government-constituted Technical Committee on the Niger Delta.

His commentaries on Africa have appeared in many US and international media including, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Congressional Record, The United States Institute of Peace, US Senate, the Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian where he is a regular contributor

Television Host

Beginning in 2013 Onwudiwe began hosting his own show "The Conference" on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the show is also available internationally on Nigerian Television Authority International (NTAi). On the show Ebere discusses important domestic issues with various stakeholders in Nigerian civil society and government.

International Journal of African Studies

He revived the Journal of Human Relations changed its name to The International Journal of African Studies (IJAS), and became its editor from 1997 to 2007. The IJAS has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, 90 per cent of them written by African academics whose scholarship often rarely make it into mainstream Eurocentric journals.

Publications

Onwudiwe's major books are:

  • (co-edited with Minabere Ibelema) Afro-Optimism: Perspectives on Africa's Advances Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003. ISBN 0-275-97586-X According to WorldCat, the book is held in 682 libraries
  • (co-edited with Adigun A B Agbaje & Larry Jay Diamond) Nigeria's Struggle for Democracy and Good Governance Ibadan, Nigeria : Ibadan University Press, 2004 ISBN 978-9781214004
  • Review, by Rita Kiki Edozie, African Studies Review, v49 n1 (Apr. 2006): 182–183
  • (co-edited with Eghosa E Osaghae) The Management of the National Question in Nigeria University of Ibadan, 2001 ISBN 9789783420397
  • (co-edited with Rotimi T Suberu) Nigerian Federalism in Crisis: Critical Perspectives and Political Option.Ibadan : Programme on Ethnic and Federal Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, 2005 ISBN 9789783642133

    • Among his journal articles are

  • "Africa's Other Story" Current History 101, no. 655, (2002): 225
  • "How Oil Put Africa Back on the Map" Transition, n99 (2008): 148–152
  • (with Minabere Ibelema; Mathurin C Houngnikpo) "Review Essays – Africa Between Despair and Hope – Afro-Optimism: Perspectives on Africa's Advances" African studies review. 47, no. 2, (2004): 131
  • A Critique of Recent Writings on Ethnicity and Nationalism Research in African Literatures, v32 n3 (Autumn, 2001): 213–228

    • Among his other publications are

  • (with Apollos O. Nwauwa) "Between Tradition and Change: Sociopolitical and Economic Transformation Among the Igbo of Nigeria" Glassboro, N.J. : Goldline & Jacobs Pub., 2012 ISBN 9789784949873
  • "On the Sovereign National Conference" Issue: A Journal of Opinion, v27 n1 (1999): 66–68
  • (with Chloe Berwind-Dart) "Breaking the Cycle of Electoral Violence in Nigeria" "Breaking the Cycle of Electoral Violence in Nigeria". United States Institute of Peace. Retrieved 24 December 2012. 

    • References

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