Chief Sir Ernest Emenyonu is a Nigerian academic, who is an African literature critic and professor. He was formerly head of the department of English and Literary Studies, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, in that order, through the 1980s and 1990s. He was also Provost of Alvan Ikoku College of Education now Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Educationˌ Owerri in Imo stateˌ Nigeria (1992–1995).[1]
Ernest Nneji Emenyonu is one of the preeminent scholars in the world on African Literature.[2][3] He has published biographies on notable writers such as Chinua Achebe and Cyprian Ekwensi.[4] While at the University of Calabar, Emenyonu founded and chaired the Calabar annual International Conference on African Literature and the English Language (ICALEL).[5] This promoted interaction of African writers and critics with visiting international scholars.[citation needed]
Emenyonu is a research professor at University of Michigan. He held the position of Head of Department of Africana Studies. Presently, he is the Editor of the oldest journal in the world on African literature, African Literature Today.[6][7] He has made notable contributions to the University of Michigan-Flint such as bringing Nobel Prize winner in Literature Wole Soyinka, to the campus, as well as women's rights activist Nawal El Saadawi.[8]
Emenyonu is a Knight of Saint Christopher, Anglican Communion.[5] He is also a Chief in his hometown of Imo State, Nigeria. He was given the title Ugwu Mba 1 of Mbieri translated to mean "pride of his people."[5] He is married to his longtime wife Patricia Emenyonu with four children and has three granddaughters.[citation needed]
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Chief Sir ErnestEmenyonu is a Nigerian academic, who is an African literature critic and professor. He was formerly head of the department of English...
disrupting the flow or distorting the storyline. Scholars such as ErnestEmenyonu, one of the most prominent scholars of Igbo literature, said that Adichie...
English Language founded and chaired by African scholar and critic ErnestEmenyonu. At the centre of the conference are African writers and critics from...
"Remembering Nawal El Saadawi", World Literature Today, 24 March 2021. ErnestEmenyonu, "NAWAL EL SAADAWI: A Life in Writing (Oct. 27, 1931 – March 21, 2021)"...
between 1913 and 1917." Emerging Perspectives On Chinua Achebe, p. 435. ErnestEmenyo̲nu, Iniobong I. Uko - 2004 - 459: "To Achebe, Union Igbo was a mechanical...
Nwankiti's life was the subject of the book A Good Shepherd (2003), by ErnestEmenyonu. "Diocese of Owerri (Anglican Communion)". www.owerrianglican.org....
OCLC 769353992. Emenyonu, Ernest N. (1978). The Rise of the Igbo novel (1st ed.). Ibadan: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9789781540233. OCLC 489876242. Emenyonu, Ernest...
Act no 1. ANA's founding members include Kole Omotoso, Mabel Segun, ErnestEmenyonu, Labo Yari, Femi Osofisan, J. P. Clark, Niyi Osundare, Jerry Agada...
Palmnut, The Autobiography of Prof. Samuel Udezuligbo Uzochukwu, 2019. ErnestEmenyonu, "Ugochukwu [sic], Sam", in Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African...
been edited since 2003 by Professor Ernest N. Emenyonu. Emenyonu, Ernest N.; Isidore Diala; Patricia T. Emenyonu; Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́; Madhu Krishnan; Pauline...
and Education in Nigeria. The Case of the English Language", in ErnestEmenyonu|Emenyonu E. N. (ed.) Studies in African Literature, pp. 229–311. 1990: "Interrogation...
Achebe, Chinua (1971). Civil Peace. Bedford/St. Martin's. p. 10. Emenyonu, Ernest (2003). Post-War Writing In Nigeria. African Studies Association. pp...
Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Nwoga, Chinweizu, ErnestEmenyonu, Nnolim and other new poetry, prose and critical voices from around...
along lines prefabricated by the Soviet school of socialist realism." ErnestEmenyo̲nu, War in African Literature Today: A Review, 2008 (0852555717), p. 89:...
of Babel. James Currey Publishers. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-85255-581-1. Emenyọnu, Ernest (1978). The Rise of the Igbo Novel (Reprinted ed.). Oxford University...
Literatures in English. Routledge. ISBN 9781134468478. Emenyonu, Ernest; Patricia Thornton Emenyonu; F. D. Imbuga; James Gibbs (2006). New Directions in...
Enyinnaya, Innocent C. K. (2000). "Gabrial Okara as War Poet". In Emenyonu, Ernest N. (ed.). Goatskin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives on African...
literature since 1914 – Part 1". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2022. Emenyonu, Ernest N. (2021). The Literary History of the Igbo Novel: African Literature...
Abdel Aziz, Nael Eltoukhy, Mohammed Rabie & Yasmine El Rashidi. In: Ernest N. Emenyonu (ed.): Focus on Egypt. Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk 2017, pp. 7–21. DOI:...
intrusive and overpowering presence of Western government and beliefs. Ernest N. Emenyonu commented that "Things Fall Apart is indeed a classic study of cross-cultural...
the white Christian missionaries arrive. Nigerian English professor Ernest N. Emenyonu describes the colonial experience in the novel as "the systematic...
Postcolonial, Emergent, and Indigenous Feminisms (Summer 1995), pp. 996–999. Emenyonu, Ernest N., "Flora Nwapa (1931–93)", in Paul Schellinger (ed.), Encyclopedia...
asụsụ Igbo". BBC Igbo (in Igbo). Lagos. Retrieved 20 April 2022. Ernest N. Emenyonu (2020). "Tony Uchenna Ubesie: The quintessential Igbo novelist". The...
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