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Chinweizu (Chinweizu Ibekwe) was born on 26 March, 1943 in Eluoma, Isuikwuato, Abia State, Nigeria, is a Nigerian critic. Discover Chinweizu's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

Popular As Chinweizu Ibekwe
Occupation Critic, poet, journalist
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 26 March, 1943
Birthday 26 March
Birthplace Eluoma, Isuikwuato, Abia State, Nigeria
Nationality Niger

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1943

Chinweizu Ibekwe (born 26 March 1943), known mononymously as Chinweizu, and also by the pen-name Maazi Chinweizu, is a Nigerian critic, essayist, poet, and journalist.

While studying in the United States during the Black Power movement, Chinweizu became influenced by the philosophy of the Black Arts Movement.

He is commonly associated with Black orientalism and emerged as one of the leading figures in contemporary Nigerian journalism, writing a highly influential column in The Guardian of Lagos.

Chinweizu was born in 1943 in the town of Eluoma, in Isuikwuato in the part of Eastern Region of Nigeria that is known today as Abia State.

1967

He was educated at Government Secondary School, Afikpo, and later attended college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studied philosophy and mathematics, earning a bachelor of science degree in 1967, the year of the outbreak of civil war in Nigeria, which lasted two and a half years.

1969

At the time living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Chinweizu founded and edited the Biafra Review (1969–70).

1975

He enrolled for a Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo, under the supervision of political scientist Claude E. Welch Jr. Chinweizu apparently had a disagreement with his dissertation committee and walked away with his manuscript, which he got published as The West and the Rest of Us: White Predators, Black Slavers, and the African Elite by Random House in 1975.

1976

He took the book to SUNY, Buffalo, where he demanded, and was promptly awarded, his Ph.D. in 1976, one year after he had published the dissertation.

Thus, the publication settled his disagreement with his advisers in his favour.

Chinweizu started teaching overseas, at MIT and San Jose State University.

1980

He had returned to Nigeria by the early 1980s, working over the years as a columnist for various newspapers in the country and also working to promote Black orientalism in Pan-Africanism.

In Nigeria, he became a literary critic, attacking what he saw as the elitism of some Nigerian authors, particularly Wole Soyinka, and he was editor of the Nigerian literary magazine, Okike.

1983

Chinweizu's notable intervention on this theme came in the essay "The Decolonization of African Literature" (later expanded into the 1983 book Toward the Decolonization of African Literature), to which Soyinka responded in an essay entitled "Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Transition".

Among Chinweizu's other works is Anatomy of Female Power, in which he discusses gender roles, masculinity and feminism.

Chinweizu has argued that the Arab colonization and Islamization of Africa is no different from European imperialism.

The violent conquests, forced conversions and slavery perpetrated by European Christians were also perpetrated by Arab Muslims.

In fact, the colonization and enslavement of Africa by Arabs began before the Europeans and continues to this day in Sudan, Mauritania and other countries in the Sahel region.

Recently he published a comparative digest that shows the parallel history of European and Arab atrocities against indigenous Africans.

He has been critical of the popular illusion that Islam is free of slavery and racism.

Islam and Arabian culture are just as much foreign invasive forces as Christianity and European culture.

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