Joan,
Trust you to be a bridge in all things good and noble!
Cheers.
IBK
--FYI Prof. Assensoh. Below is a response to your inquiry from the son of Eze Chukwuemeka Ike.Regards,joanps- I was going to send this to you privately but your email bounced.---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Oyster St. Iyke <oyster3000@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR THE BOOK ON CHUKWUEMEKA IKE- 50 YEARS AS A PUBLISHED NOVELIST 1965-2015
To: "joan.Osa Oviawe" <joanoviawe@gmail.com>Akwasi B. Assensoh greetings.Chukwuemeka IKE, quondam Registrar of WAEC is hale and hearty.At 83, he still runs a pretty busy schedule as President of the Awka-based Nigerian Book Foundation.He has even greater duties as King - His Majesty Eze Prof. Chukwuemeka IKE, OFR, NNOM, Ugwu Aro, Ikelionwu XI, Eze Ndikelionwu and as a Vice Chairman of his state's Council of Traditional RulersNollywood's Emeka Ike is a brilliant young actor and director, whose only relationship to His Majesty is the shared commitment to excellence in service to mankind, especially using the arts as a platform.The other Ike whose name pops up on the net is the middle-aged writer, editor, publisher, photographer and Public Relations and Media Consultant named Osita Ike or better known as Prince Osita IKE, MNIPR, arpa. Osita is His Majesty's heir to the throne, as Crown Prince of Ndikelionwu and runs a consulting firm and serves on the Foundation and other organizations.Messages to Eze Prof. Ike are relayed through this email address or by telephone : +2348033157657.Bless you all.Joan, thanx a mill.Bless you extra specially---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Assensoh, Akwasi B. <aassenso@indiana.edu>Date: Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:08 AMSubject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - STAR INFORMATION: Synopsis of WAEC 2014 Results of NigeriaTo: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>, NaijaPolitics e-Group <NaijaPolitics@yahoogro>, naijaintellects <naijaintellects@googlegroups.com>, Ra'ayi <Raayiriga@yahoogroups.com>, Yan Arewa <YanArewa@yahoogroups.com>, NiDAN <nidan-group@googlegroups.com>, OmoOdua <OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com>, ekiti ekitigroups <ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com>, "nigerianid@yahoogroups.com" <nigerianID@yahoogroups.com>
VC Aluko:
Many thanks for this useful information, especially the tabulated aspects. It is wonderful to know that WEAC, as a regional examining body, is still viable!
By the way, where is former WAEC boss, Registrar Chukuemeka Ike (or Eke), the novelist? I have recently read a lot about a younger 'Emeka Eke or Ike, who is part of the Nollywood phenomenon, but I know that the former WAEC Registrar is too grey (or too old) to be hopping and jumping around in Hollywood or Nollywood acting circles. The older Ike (or Eke) played a noble role for WAEC, hence I wish to know where he is now?
A.B. Assensoh.
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Oyster St. Iyke <oyster3000@gmail.com> wrote:
From: CHUKWUEMEKAIKE NDIKELIONWU <chukwuemekaike50years2015celeb@gmail.com>
Subject: NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR THE BOOK ON CHUKWUEMEKA IKE- 50 YEARS AS A PUBLISHED NOVELIST 1965-2015CHUKWUEMEKA IKE – 50 YEARS AS A NOVELIST
( 1965 – 2015 )
Chukwuemeka Ike’s first novel, Toads for Supper, was published in London in April 1965. 2015 marks his Golden Jubilee as a published Novelist ( or storyteller).
During this period, Chukwuemeka Ike established himself as a RELEVANT
NOVELIST, as the late Prof. Ezenwa Ohaeto described Ike. His novels beam the
Searchlight on various facets of life: child upbringing (The Potter’s Wheel,
Anu Ebu Nwa – in Igbo); life in a secondary school ( The Bottled Leopard,
Expo ’77); life on the university campus ( Toads for Supper, The Naked Gods,
Toads for Ever); the generation gap (Our Children Are Coming!); the Nation/State
(The Search, Conspiracy of Silence); Nigeria’s Civil War (Sunset at Dawn);
a multinational organization (The Chicken Chasers).
As Professor Chinua Achebe stated in Lagos at the presentation of Chukwuemeka Ike’s Expo ’77 on 28 April 1981 – Ike’s 50th birthday – “Chukwuemeka Ike has explored a wider spectrum of Nigerian life than any other novelist. Each of his six novels takes a different perspective in our story, drawing its material from a different facet of his own rich and diverse experience.”
Ike published a collection of short stories (The Accra Riviera) and a fictional US based travelogue (To My Husband, From Iowa) in which he sees the US, Latin America, South-East Asia through the eyes of a Nigerian female creative writer. His book The Bottled Leopard was reproduced for the French as Fils De Panthere, adding a few million readers to his global audience.
As a non-fiction writer, Ike wrote a scholarly book (University Development in Africa: The Nigerian Experience) and a do-it-yourself book (How To Become A Published Writer). He co-edited University of Nigeria 1960-85: An Experiment in Higher Education, and edited six books related to book publishing and the reading culture. He also wrote four monographs.
Professor Kanchana Ugbabe, in her introduction to the book, Chukwuemeka Ike: A Critical Reader (2001) said the following about Ike: “Ike’s work…serves an important bridging function between serious and popular literature…..Ike’s primary concern has been to communicate with his audience through the storyteller’s art…He is an engaging writer whose thematic range and innovations in style….have kept his works continually in the public eye. Though the world Ike deals with is a small one, the village…the boarding school, the university campus, Ike cannot be accused of provincialism. His insights into envy, jealousy and power struggles in this small world, leads us to an understanding of similar issues in the world at large. Ike is also one of the strong voices in urban literature in Africa.”
Professor Ugbabe regrets that “a writer who has made such an impact on the reading public….has not to date received much critical acclaim.” That was in 1991.
The situation has since changed. In April 2008, the U.S. based African Literature Association (ALA) conferred on Ike its 2008 Fonlon-Nichols Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and outstanding contribution to the struggle for human rights and freedom of expression.
At home in Nigeria, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria conferred the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) Award on H.M. Eze Prof. Chukwuemeka Ike, OFR. Professor Wole Soyinka shared the stage with Ike and received the NNOM award too. NNOM is Nigeria’s highest and most prestigious national prize for academic and intellectual attainment.
Ike became the second Novelist to receive the award since its inauguration in 1979, the first being Professor Chinua Achebe.
The 2015 Golden Jubilee will be a golden opportunity to celebrate the elder statesman Chukwuemeka Ike’s achievements as a leading, internationally acclaimed Novelist of Nigerian birth. It should also be the catalyst for establishing the infrastructure for sustainable literary creativity in Nigeria.
Meanwhile, readers, critics and scholars who have indicated the intention of writing on Ike’s numerous books and his style and global impact, have been encouraged to send their contributions to the landmark book on Ike not later than November 30, 2014 to enable the editors to ensure it is published in the first quarter of 2015.
- Deolu Olusanya, 2014 August
CALL FOR PAPERS:
SCHOLARS, CRITICS, STUDENTS AND INFORMED FANS/READERS OF IKE’S BOOKS:
You are all invited to send in papers written on any of Ike’s fiction AND non-fiction books for the forthcoming epic titled Chukwuemeka Ike- The Leopard Unbottled: 50 Years of Ike as a Published Novelist and Relevant Voice of African Urban Literature.
Papers may also explore:
· Ike’s style,
· themes,
· impact as an international writer of Nigerian birth,
· Ike’s role in developing sustainable literary creativity,
· Ike’s role in Nigerian Book Development
· An overall assessment of Ike’s success as a RELEVANT WRITER (Prof. Ezenwa Ohaeto)
· Ike as a Strong Voice in African Urban Literature
· Ike’s art as Storyteller
· Chukwuemeka Ike-The Storyteller in National Development
· *Any other area of interest to you.
Kindly email papers not later than 2014 November 30 to:
chukwuemekaike50years2015celeb@gmail.com
AND send copy to:
Thank you.
Osita
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