Nwando Achebe Makes Full Professor at MSU

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February 16, 2011

Nwando Achebe-Ogundimu, Professor of History, Michigan State University, and daughter of the great Chinua Achebe was recently inducted into the rank of Full Professor at MSU, thus becoming one of the youngest full professors on campus!

Below are some pictures taken during the full professor dinner hosted by the president of the university.


Nwando Achebe, Professor of History, Michigan State University, received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000. She served as a Ford Foundation and Fulbright-Hays Scholar-in-Residence at The Institute of African Studies and History Department of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1996 and 1998. Her research interests involve the use of oral history in the study of women, gender, sexuality, and power in Nigeria. Her first book, Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960 was published by Heinemann in 2005. Dr. Achebe’s second book, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (Indiana University Press, 2011) is a full length critical biography on the onlyfemale warrant chief and king in all of colonial Nigeria, and arguably British Africa. The writing was funded by a generous grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Dr. Achebe is presently working on a WHO funded grant on polio eradication in northern Nigeria.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/people/nwando-achebe-makes-full-professor-at-msu.html

Pretty cool. Full prof in 10-11 years is pretty good, I think. . . not sure how long it takes in the History world, but usually around that amount of time in mine.

Congratulations to her!

congrats, am not surprised, a lion begets a lion

^^^

This is really stupid!