USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: [NaijaObserver] Re: [NaijaObeserver] Nigerian professor, Dubem Okafor kills wife, self in US [MORE ANALYSES OF THIS TRAGEDY]

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From: vincent modebelu <vin_modebelu@yahoo.com>
Date: 19 August 2010 15:08
Subject: [NaijaObserver] Re: [NaijaObeserver] Nigerian professor, Dubem Okafor kills wife, self in US
To: IgboEvents@yahoogroups.com, CHINWE ENEMCHUKWU <amalae7@yahoo.com>, NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com, naijaobserver@yahoogroups.com, igbo_forum@yahoogroups.com, ABIAUSA@yahoogroups.com, naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com

 

Dr. Dubem Okafor, here looking like a traditional village elder dispensing greetings and advice to visitors, here on the steps of Harvard's Barker Center, no doubt doing a little of the same! Okafor is the President of the Muticultural and Literacy Institute in Reading, Pennsylvania.     Dr Okafor & wife Employment History Kutztown University Kutztown University Reading Public Museum Eha-Amufu College S.U.N.Y.'s Rockland College University of Minnesota Education Ph.D. degree , Cultural Studies   University of Minnesota will keep blowing while relaxed till they hear me vin....../// --- On Thu, 8/19/10, Chinwe Enemchukwu <chinweenemchukwu@gmail.com> wrote: From: Chinwe Enemchukwu <chinweenemchukwu@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [IgboEvents:Live] Nigerian professor, Dubem Okafor kills wife, self in US To: IgboEvents@yahoogroups.com, "igboworldforum" <IgboWorldForum@yahoogroups.com>, "naniigbo" <Naniigbo@yahoogroups.com>, "CHINWE ENEMCHUKWU" <amalae7@yahoo.com> Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 4:23 AM   This is heartbreaking news. Murder- suicide happens everyday and we always viewed it as a problem foreign to our culture. Obviously, it is no longer foreign to our community which has been struggling with spousal homicide for a few years now. This is a new one, and very dangerous too. This should not be allowed to settle in our communities. Our ancestors had names and proverbs dealing with situations which may lead to spousal homicide and now murder-suicide. To reach that point of no return, an individual mind must be so tormented that it becomes numb to reason.  That is where names like------ Nkiruka, Azuka, Ibezimako, Onyekaozuru, Ndidiamaka, Obimdike, Amauche, Adindu (adikwudo ife/ihe). These names all point to the fact that brighter and better things are in store if life is preserved and that family, friends are there to be leaning posts when life throws heavy obstacles in the way.  When people get to the desperate point of taking a life or lives, endangering their lives after this world whether with God in heaven, or the ancestors, whichever they believe, it makes a lot of sense for people close to them to intervene and help and support and TALK to them, encouraging, not inciting or blaming, or comparing, but reminding that there is life after trouble, be it loss of a loved one through walking away or death or divorce, the world moves on, life goes on, it is not worth losing a life or lives over. These recent deaths are totally uncalled for, heartbreaking and should serve as an eye opener that more vigilance is needed to help prevent such. It looks like somebody was trying to intervene in this situation, and it was either too late or who knows ?   Echi di ime, Ndu ka (ihe nile), Osi ta di nma. Ihe di oku ga emechaa juo oyi, otu osina di.  Ka Chineke mere umu ya ebere. Ozo emena oooo Ya Gazie, Nwada (Lady) Chinwe Enemchukwu Onye Uwa Oma na Orlando, FLorida. On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:35 PM, <chukwuobi@aol.com> wrote:   Nigerian professor, Dubem Okafor kills wife, self in US Cover Stories, Headlines Aug 18, 2010 Share | By Uduma Kalu & Adekunle Aliyu One of Nigeria's most respected poet and professor of English and Literature, Dubem Okafor is dead.  He died last Sunday in the United States after shooting his wife Cheryl 37. Chukwudubem Okafor and his wife Cheryl Reports and calls from the US say Okafor, 64,  cousin to the late poet, Christopher Okigbo apparently distraught his wife had left him a few days earlier, arranged to meet her at his sister's Reading home, Pennsylvania, where he shot her several times and himself once in the head at 3:45 p.m. Sunday, police said. A small-caliber handgun was found near the bodies, police said. The Berks County coroner declared her death a homicide and his death a suicide. Chukwudubem A. Okafor, 64, an associate professor of English at Kutztown University, was said to have shot his wife, Cheryl V., 37, who was an artist, several times Sunday afternoon and turned the gun on himself shortly after they arrived separately at the home of his sister, Patricia Ofilin, in the 300 block of Pear Street, investigators said.  Obi Chukwu  New Dawn Realty  678 361-4632

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