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An overview of the ethnic wars and marginalization of the Igbos of Nigeria and the unparalleled abandonment of the Igbo language and culture by the Igbo people themselves. Ositadimma Ogbonna was born in Ugwuta Ameshi (Oguta) Nigeria. He was educated at the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, Nigeria and at the North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. He is member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, a CPA and holds a Masters degree in Information Sciences. He served as chief accountant with the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) and Controller of Audit Nigerian Industrial Development Bank (NIDB) now Bank of Industry. He is the president Imo State Association of North Carolina, the Assistant Financial Secretary Ohaneze Ndigbo of North Carolina and former chairman, Finance Committee of Igbo Catholic Community Raleigh, He is a knight of Columbus and lives in the serene town of Cary within the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina.
The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently conflicting parallel strands of criminality and efforts at state building, a tension embodied by a group of individuals who are simultaneously local political leaders, drug entrepreneurs, and members of heavily armed militias.Ko-lin Chin, a Chinese American criminologist who was born and raised in Burma, conducted five hundred face-to-face interviews with poppy growers, drug dealers, drug use...
This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the training of health professionals in Nigeria, looking back to how health care education has evolved in the country over time, before investigating new and emerging trends. The book begins with a discussion of the fundamentals of health care education, the art of teaching health care students, and modeling professionalism in health care. The book highlights the work of pioneer Nigerian health care academics, and explores the administration of health care education at departmental level. Finally, it highlights the role of elite Nigerian health care academics in the diaspora, chronicles contemporary challenges in health care education, and makes recommendations for reform. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners working on health care education in Africa.
Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right is a tale of departure, loss and adaptation; of mothers whose experience at the hands of controlling men leave them with burdens they find too much to bear. After an unwanted pregnancy leaves her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, seventeen-year-old Ogadinma is sent to her aunt's in Lagos. When a whirlwind romance with an older man descends into indignity, she is forced to channel her strength and resourcefulness to escape a fate that appears all but inevitable. A feminist classic in the making, Ukamaka Olisakwe's sophomore novel introduces a heroine for whom it is impossible not to root and announces the author ...
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