The only biography (in the classical sense) of K.O. that I know is M.O. Monye's BA thesis, "A Biography of Late Dr. Kingsley Gabriel Ozuomba Mbadiwe," in the Department of History, Imo State University, Okigwe (now Abia State University, Uturu), 1991.
There is also K.O.'s own autobiography, Rebirth of a Nation, Enugu, Fourth Dimension, 1991. The latter was edited with an introduction by his erstwhile assistant Luke I. Agusiegbe.
And then, there is his quasi-authobiographical work, British and Axis Aims in Africa (1942).
G. Ugo Nwokeji
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BettmannEleanor Roosevelt with Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe and Mbonu OjikeFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, sponsor and guest of honor of the African Dance Festival, held Monday evening at Carnegie Hall, was photographed during the reception held for her before the performance in the art gallery of Carnegie Hall. Shown with her are Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe (center), head of the academy of African Arts and Research, which is presenting the festival, center, and Mbonu Ojike (right), of Nigeria, who is here from Chicago University, representing the African students. Both men are wearing native robes.IMAGE:
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December 14, 1943COLLECTION
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Their Spirit will never die!
These were sons of Igbo nation!
By their behavior you know them!
They were handsome men, HO! HA!
Ya gazie
A.A.Madu
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Mbadiwe and Mazi Mbonu Ojike at the African Dance Festival held at the Carnegie Hall Art Gallery in New York on December 14, 1943...Take another closer look at the picture and imagine how bold and fearless these guys took the situation at a particular time Japan was tearing up the Pacific states and United States still not sure of the battle in Europe and a broke Britain from trying to defeat Hitler in what Hitler had begun by invading Poland. And these bold and fearless folks were in their 20s at a time we barely knew what civilization was all about...See where Britain panicked?. Here K. O. Mbadiwe was the President of the Academy of African Arts and Research which presented the festival while Mbonu Ojike was visiting from the University of Chicago, representing African students.Photo: Corbis ImagesIn 1943, three African students—Kingsley Mbadiwe, Mbonu Ojike, and A.A.Nwafor Orizu—founded the African Academy of Arts and Research (AAAR) while attending school in the United States. The AAAR's goal was to educate Americans about African culture and to promote African independence. The academy's first officers were Mbadiwe, the historian Ojike, Lawrence Reddick, South African D.Buyabuye Mdodana, and West Indian businessman A.A.Austin.In 1945, the AAAR's Board of Directors was reorganized to provide it with "more dynamic leadership and promote collective responsibility for policy and decisions" (Lynch, 193). The Reverend James H.Robinson became chair, A.George Daly vice president, and Ojike executive director. Five new members joined the board, including the lawyer, judge, and politician Raymond Pace Alexander; Charles E.Seifert; and the Methodist minister Charles Y.Trigg. Although most board members were African or African American, three white liberals joined in 1946, including former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Roger Baldwin, and Maurice P.Davidson. By December 1945, the group's membership had grown to one thousand.![]()
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To spark American interest in African culture, the academy sponsored critically acclaimed African Dance Festivals at Carnegie Hall in 1943, 1945, and 1946. Moreover, the academy published Africa Today and Tomorrow (1945), a collection of eighteen essays on African history, culture, and politics. The publication also announced the recipients of the 1945 and 1946 Wendell Wilkie Awards. First recipients were former Vice President Henry A.Wallace, who was honored as "an outspoken champion of civil rights in the United States and freedom for all colonial people" (Lynch, 194) and Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who was recognized in 1946 for his support of African independence and his patronage of the academy. During the winter of 1945–1946, the AAAR organized lectures on Africa at the American Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C. In 1946, the academy sponsored fund-raising events known as "Africa Days" at black churches in New York, and it produced Greater Tomorrow, a newsreel highlighting AAAR activities that became an important fund-raising tool. In 1947 the academy purchased Africa House, which became a meeting place for expatriate Africans in New York City.To remedy Western inattention to Africa, the academy cultivated relationships with African American journalists and newspaper editors such as Claude Barnett and James Jones-Quartery. The academy used these connections to publicize and generate American support for Nigerian workers during a general wage strike in the summer of 1945.In addition to educating Americans about African culture and politics, the AAAR also promoted African independence. In 1945, for example, Ojike lobbied the U.N. San Francisco Conference for the establishment of target dates for African independence, but his efforts to meet with American and British representatives were unsuccessful. At the Academy's first annual conference in October 1946, George W.Harrison, president of the Ethiopian World Federation, called for the establishment of a pan-African federation to support African decolonization and "foster vigorous commercial and cultural ties between Africans and blacks in the new World" (Lynch, 196). Academy members embraced capitalism as a beneficial force for African development and advocated pan-African entrepreneurship in Africa. To strengthen the ties between America and Africa, Mbadiwe opened AAAR branch offices in Sierra Leone, Gold Coast (Ghana), Nigeria, and Liberia when he returned to West Africa in 1947.Before the academy ceased operating in 1957, it facilitated postwar ties between Africa and America by generating American awareness of and appreciation for African culture and politics, assisting African students in the United States, and encouraging African Americans to pursue pan-Africanism. The academy, for example, encouraged Barnett, who became a staunch supporter of African liberation, to make his first of fifteen visits to Africa in 1947, and it facilitated Horace Mann Bond's first visit to Nigeria in 1949. The AAAR also set an example for and inspired the formation of other American organizations focused on Africa, including the American Society for African Culture and Crossroads Africa, which was founded by James H. Robinson, former chair of the academy's board in 1958.FURTHER READING
Lynch, Hollis. "K.O.Mbadiwe, 1939–1947: The American Years of A Nigerian Political Leader." Journal of African Studies 7, 4 (Winter 1980–1981): 184–203.
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Bro. Abe, Those were some nice looking guys in nice looking outfits. 1943? How did people go overseas in 1943? If by ships, I wonder how many days it took....Gregg
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Mazi Chief K O Mbadiwe and Mazi Chief MbonuOjike were Igbo Prince,they were royal in their princely magnificent robes in 1943 and for ever.You know my brother...Abraham Madu
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Nnaa, I read Maazi Madu's below, about our early greats. bold, fearless and courageous, they were...that was Igbo of my father's. I was told by a maternal...peter opara
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