Dr. Benaiah Oguzie, FHNR

Dr. Benaiah Oguzie

Professor of Literature
School of Arts and Sciences

E-Mail: oguzie@aaun.edu.ng
beoguzie@yahoo.com

Educational Background:

• PhD, African Literature, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

Dr. Benaiah Oguzie is a highly respected authority on African and Nigerian literature and the writing of Chukwuemeka Ike. He has an undergraduate degree and graduate degree from Howard University, Washington, DC, where he researched and wrote about the image of women in Nigerian novels. He teaches courses in writing and literature.

Previous Posts:

• Dean, School of Arts, AICE, Owerri
• Head, Department of English Language and Literature, AICE, Owerri
• Coordinator, Extra-mural Unit, AICE, Owerri
• Acting Dean, School of Languages, AICE, Owerri

Selected Publications:

• "Power and the Press, The Nigerian Civil War Experience in Cyprian Ekwensi's Survive the Peace." African Literature Today., No. 26, ed., Prof. E.N. Emenyonu, USA, forthcoming.
• "Language at Work: The Importance of Prose Fiction in English Learning and Teaching. Nka Journal of School of Arts. ed. S.K. Okpi, A.I.C.E, Owerri No. 4: 2004, p. 1-4.
• "Chukwuemeka Ike's Literary Technique and Style in Toads for Supper." Chukwuemeka Ike, A Critical Reader, ed. Kanhana Ugbabe, Lagos: Mault House Press Ltd., 2001, p. 10-17.
• Study Aid on Prescribed SSCE/GCE O/L, Literature. [co-authored with Onuekwusi], Owerri: Enhance Publication, 1992.
• African Literature for Schools and Colleges (co-authored with Prof. Ernest Emenyonu), Ibadan: University Press Ltd., 1989.

Research Interests:

• The works of Chukwuemeka Ike
• Women in Nigerian Literature
• African Oral Literature
• Prose Fiction and English Language Learning and Teaching

Selected Affiliations:

• Nigerian Association for African and Comparative Literature
• Professors World Peace Academy, Nigeria
• West African Association for Commonwealth, Literature and Language Studies
• Institute of Human and Natural Resources, Nigeria
• Titled Chief, Odiukonamba 1 of Amaike-Mbieri

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