Obiwu
- January 10, 2024
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Obiwu Biography
| Name | Obiwu |
| Birthday | Sep 10 |
| Birth Year | 1962 |
| Place Of Birth | Umuahia |
| Birth Country | Nigeria |
| Birth Sign | Virgo |
Obiwu is one of the most popular and richest Academic who was born on September 10, 1962 in Umuahia, Nigeria. Obiwu refers to the pseudonym of Obioma Paul Iwuanyanwu (born 1962) an American-Nigerian writer and professor. He was the sole person who survived the Igbo Genocide within Nigeria (1966-1970) and also teaches World Literature and Critical Theory in the Humanities Department at Central State University.
The conference international regarding “Olaudah Equiano: Representation and Reality,” that was held on 22 March in 2003, in Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom, was the scene of an extensive debate that Obiwu presented a defense to Vincent Carretta’s assertion that Equiano had misrepresented his origins within his famous slave story. The dispute was discussed in the Nigeria World , Ike Anya, a London-based medical doctor and writer, writes the following “[Obiwu] questioned Carretta’s motives in seeking to demystify Equiano from a very weak evidence base and hinted that race, finance and fame were possible motives … [He] pointed out the logical flaws in Carretta’s argument and suggested that Carretta visit Africa for further research”.
In 2012, Obiwu published his second collection of poetry, Tigress at Full Moon. Tigress is compiled from a body of “pieces ranging over a decade and a half of exile, in other words poems solely written in the US”. A review by Roger W. Hecht states that, “These poems are the embodiment of immortal imagination impregnated with the spirit of creativity…, they chant us to see the vision and imagine ourselves in it.” Furthermore, Chielozona Eze points out that he found “the poet [Obiwu] powerful when he engages issues closest to him and his native culture, less so in those instances when a poem becomes a foil for engaging some of those discourses that interest the poet”.
On April 17–18, 2015, twelve years after the Equiano controversy, Obiwu returned to the United Kingdom again to present what he termed a preliminary intervention on Igbo sex at “The 4th Annual International Igbo Conference: Igbo Womanhood, Womanbeing and Personhood” The conference was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
As of 1997, Obiwu relocated to America to continue his graduate studies in Syracuse University, later earning his PhD in English and Textual Studies. In 2002, he began lecturing in the Humanities Department at Central State University (CSU) located in Wilberforce, Ohio. He was appointed the CSU Writing Center’s director in 2005. altered the center’s focus to CSU’s Writing Center. CSU Writing Center, and that same year, was named the director of CSU’s CSU team that was awarded the semi-finalist prize in the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge National Championship Tournament in Orlando, Florida. A few alumni of former CSU students such as Helon Habila, the author Helon Habila went into successful careers.
Obiwu Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Academic |
| House | Living in own house. |
Obiwu is one of the richest Academic from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Obiwu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He then went on to learn English Language and Literature at Imo State University (now Abia State University). He graduated with distinction in 1986, and also earned minors on History as well as Linguistics. In his post-degree year of one year National Youth Service, he taught at the Government Secondary School in Madagali which is a town bordering the Mandara Mountain chain between Northern Nigeria and Northern Cameroon.
In the year 1990, Obiwu gained his master’s degree from the University of Jos with a thesis on the works written by George Orwell and Wole Soyinka. Then, he was recruited by the University of Jos as a lecturer in the English Department where he taught poetry as well as drama, fiction along with creative writing. While as a lecturer at Jos University of Jos, Obiwu published two books: Rituals of the Sun (poetry) and Igbos of Northern Nigeria (pioneer diaspora studies).
Following Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s winning the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction with her sophomore novel Half of a Yellow Sun, Obiwu sought to contextualize Adichie’s writing both in terms of her historical relations to Chinua Achebe and Olaudah Equiano and in terms of her shared social consciousness with the South African Jewish novelist Nadine Gordimer.
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With his PhD dissertation, Obiwu became one of only two Africans to have written “book-length literary interventions” on Lacan, the other being the South African Teresa Dovey. His long-awaited dissertation entitled “In the Name of the Father: Lacanian Reading of Four White South African Writers,” was written under the direction of Silvio A. Torres-Saillant, Michael J. C. Echeruo, Gregg Lambert, and Cecil Abrahams. Obiwu would later write the essay, “Jacques Lacan in Africa,” to point out the often neglected role that Lacan’s trips to Africa had played in shaping his praxis of psychoanalysis.
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Obiwu Ranked on the list of most popular Academic. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Obiwu celebrates birthday on September 10 of every year.