Nwando Achebe
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Born | Enugu, Nigeria | 7 March 1970
Nationality | Nigerian-American |
Notable work | Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland: 1900-1960, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe |
School | West Africanist, Oral Historian, Feminism |
Institutions | Michigan State University, University of California, Los Angeles |
Main interests | Women, Gender, Oral History, Sexuality, Africa, West Africa |
Website | history |
Nwando Achebe (born 7 March 1970), is a Nigerian-American academic, feminist scholar, and award-winning historian.[1] She is presently the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History[2] at Michigan State University, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of West African History.[3]
Background
Nwando Achebe was born in Enugu, eastern Nigeria[4] to Nigerian writer, essayist, and poet, Chinua Achebe, and Christie Chinwe Achebe, a professor of Education.[5] She is the wife of Folu Ogundimu, professor of journalism at Michigan State University, and mother of a daughter, Chino.[6]
Career
Achebe received her Ph.D. in African History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000. An oral historian by training, her areas of expertise are West African History, women, gender and sexuality histories. In 1996 and 1998, she served as a Ford Foundation and Fulbright-Hays Scholar-in-Residence at The Institute of African Studies and The Department of History and International Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Her first academic position was as an Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. She then moved to Michigan State University in 2005 as a tenured Associate Professor, Professor in 2010, and is presently the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor. She is the author of two scholarly books. Her first book, Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960, was published by Heinemann in 2005. Her second book, the critically acclaimed The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe, was published in 2011 by Indiana University Press.[7] It is a full-length biography on the only female warrant chief and king in British Africa, and it has won three book awards: the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize, The Barbara "Penny" Kanner Book Prize and the Gita Chaudhuri Book Prize.[8]
Grants and awards
Nwando Achebe has received grants from the Wenner Gren Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright-Hays, Ford Foundation, the World Health Organization and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is also the recipient of three book awards.
Publications
- Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960. ISBN 0325070784
- The Female King of Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe. ISBN 0253222486
References
- ^ Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. "Seeing The Whole Dance: Nwando Achebe WS '00 Brings New Perspective to African Women's Power". Retrieved 11 May 2017.
- ^ "Nwando Achebe, Department of History". Retrieved 13 May 2017.
- ^ OkayAfrica International Edition. "Why It is Crucial to Locate the "African" in African Studies". okayafrica.com. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
- ^ Daily Trust Newspaper. "Nigeria: Nwando Achebe--The Woman and Her Works". All Africa. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
- ^ Offiong, Vanessa. "Nigeria: Nwando Achebe--The Woman and Her Works". AllAfrica. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
- ^ "Meet the Winner of the 2013 Aidoo-Snyder Prize--Dr. Nwando Achebe". African Studies Association. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
- ^ Vanguard Newspapers, http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/02/nwando-achebe-appointed-one-of-the-youngest-professors-as-her-latest-book-reaches-bookstores/. "Nwando Achebe Appointed one of the Youngest Professors . . . As Her Latest Book Reaches Bookstores". Vanguard Nigeria.com.
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- Living people
- 1970 births
- Nigerian writers
- Nigerian women writers
- Feminist studies scholars
- Igbo writers
- American people of Nigerian descent
- American people of Igbo descent
- Nigerian feminists
- Nigerian emigrants to the United States
- American women academics
- Nigerian women academics
- American historians
- Nigerian historians
- Gender studies academics
- Michigan State University faculty
- Nigerian expatriate academics in the United States
- 20th-century Nigerian writers
- 21st-century Nigerian writers