HE WAS THE COBRA (For Michael Jackson, 1958-2009) He was the cobra That stopped the Nazi at Auschwitz; He was the anaconda That stopped the Kamikaze at Iwo...
Author - Obiwu Iwuanyanwu
Obiwu studied at universities in Nigeria and at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. His books include The Unspeakable Protocols of the Great Injunction (2009), Tigress at Full Moon (2009), The World of Barack Obama (ed., 2009), Igbos of Northern Nigeria (1996), and Rituals of the Sun (1992). His essays include Roy Campbell and the Animal Father (2009), The 'R' in Hospitality (2008), South African Hunger and Literary Excess (2007), The Pan-African Brotherhood of Langston Hughes and Nnamdi Azikiwe (2007), and The History of Nigerian Literature, 1772-2006 (2006). His awards include the Charanjit Rangi Leadership Award for Faculty Professional Excellence from the College of Arts & Sciences, Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio (2008), Golden Key International Honor Society (2008), Resolution Recognition from the Greene County Board of Commissioners, Ohio State (2007), 'Applause' Award from Xenia Daily Gazette, Xenia, Ohio (2007), Phi Beta Delta Award for International Scholars (2000), and Fellow of the International School of Theory in the Humanities (1998). Theoretical Principle: Great Literature Rides on the Back of Historical Landmarks.
The winning of the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun” (2006), is a...
In many ways, Idzia Ahmad was my friend and my brother. I met Idzia in my first year as a junior professor at the University of Jos, Northern Nigeria. He was...
The Good Samaritan who brought me home told his part – his and his companions’. “After the enemy planes flew away,” he said, “we...
