1. Obioma Paul Iwuanyanwu was born on 1962 and known mononymously as Obiwu, is a Nigerian-American writer and professor.
12 Facts About Obiwu
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Obiwu is a survivor of the Igbo genocide in Nigeria, and teaches World Literature and Critical Theory in the Humanities Department at Central State University.
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Obiwu was born in Umuahia, the capital of Abia State in southeastern Nigeria.
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Obiwu was three years of age when the Nigerian genocide against the Igbo people began, and four when the Civil War broke out.
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Obiwu went on to study English language and literature at Imo State University.
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Obiwu graduated with honors in 1986, with minors in History and Linguistics.
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In 1990, Obiwu gained his master's degree from the University of Jos with a thesis on the novels of George Orwell and Wole Soyinka.
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Obiwu was then recruited at the University of Jos as a lecturer in the English Department where he taught poetry, drama, fiction, and creative writing.
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In 1997, Obiwu moved to America to resume his doctoral studies at Syracuse University, later earning his PhD in English and Textual Studies.
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Obiwu is co-editor and contributor to The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J C Echeruo.
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In 2012, Obiwu published his second collection of poetry, Tigress at Full Moon.
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Mark Stein's review of the conference for Early American Literature, notes that "Obiwu Iwuanyanwu went as far as accusing those who examine Equiano's African birth of professing 'anti-Equiano scholarship' with the potential to jeopardize the 'enduring human truth' of Equiano's text".