A PROFILE OF PROFESSOR EHIEDU E.G. IWERIEBOR
Professor Ehiedu E.G. Iweriebor was educated at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria from where he received his B.A (Hons) and M.A. in History. He received his M.Phil. and Ph.D.degrees in History from Columbia University, New York. He is an intellectual historian, and his areas of research, writing and teaching include the history of Nigerian and African Radicalism; Nation-building; Nationalism, Radicalism and Pan-Africanism, Ancient Africa and the history of contemporary African. His research include contemporary African autocentric development, innovative endogenous responses to economic crises, new economic sectors and sub-sectors, technological development, and the development of new perspectives on African transformation.
He has been teaching at the university level since the late 1970s. He has taught at several universities in Nigeria and the United States, including the University of Ilorin, Nigeria and as an Adjunct Lecturer at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Between 1990-1994 he was Assistant Professor, Department of History, and pioneer Chair, Department of African Studies, Manhattanville College, Purchase. He has been at Hunter College since 1994, where he is currently Full Professor and was Chair, Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/ Latino Studies, 2002-2014.
Dr. Iweriebor has published extensively including scholarly articles, popular essays, books, book chapters and monographs on aspects of African history, culture and development.
He has written and co-edited over 12 books and monographs, including: Nigeria’s March to Nationhood: Nation building and the Challenges of Sectionalism, Security, Integration and Advancement, Abuja, 2013; Radical Politics in Nigeria: The Significance of the Zikist Movement, 1945- 1950. (Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press, 1996); The Age of Neo-Colonialism in Africa. (Ibadan: African Book Builders, 1997); Nigerian Technology Development Since Independence. (Ibadan: Book Builders, 2004; Ehiedu Iweriebor and Martin Uhomoibhi, (eds.)Effective and Affirmative Representation of Nigeria: Guidelines for Newly Appointed Ambassadors, Ibadan: Book Builders, 2013.He is currently completing work on a number of book projects including, Dangote and Pan African Economic Transformation: The Revolutionary Impact; Nigeria in Transformation, The Affirmative Nigeria Narrative and African Liberated Development.
Professor Iweriebor belongs to several professional associations including the African Studies Association (ASA) USA. He is an active participant in groups, conferences and events geared to the production and propagation of innovative development ideas and non-dependent strategies, programs and blueprints for Africa’s self-directed development.
Between 2011 and 2014 he consulted with the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a capacity building programme for mid-career officers known as the 36+1 who were being trained as future leaders and strong advocates of ascendant Nigeria. Professor Iweriebor has found a new calling as the developer, advocate and a propagator of some radical ideas and fresh concepts and perspectives for Africa’s renewal including: African Liberated Development, African Agency in African Development, The African Development Capacitation systems; the Affirmative Nigeria Narrative, Nigeria-centricty and the Affirmative Africa Narrative.