The Icon- Micheal Echeruo

The Most Popular and grounded faculty in Abia state University,Faculty of Humanities was named after the great Scholar above,After alot of searches on the web directories ,Absuvila made voracious effort and finally come up with a picture of the eminent professor.This picture above was the look of the great scholar beforethe year October 2006.

Who is this Super Guy Echeruo?
Michael Joseph Chukwudalu Echeruo (born March 14, 1937) is a Nigerian academic, professor and literary critic from Umunumo, Ehime-Mbano LGA, Imo State. He was educated at the University College, Ibadan (now the University of Ibadan) from 1955 to 1960 and was contemporaries with a few notable writers and poets from the college, such as Christopher Okigbo. He earned his Master's and Ph D degrees from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1963 and 1965 respectively. One of the most versatile of African critics, he has published in English Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, in the modern English novel. Echeruo was primarily notable as a critic of western writers on Africa, as he viewed himself and his contemporaries as writers fighting for an African viewpoint instead of a western viewpoint on the continent. He is best known in poetry for his collection of poems, Mortality (1968); in cultural history for his pioneering[citation needed] study of Victorian Lagos and in lexicography for his Dictionary of the Igbo Language (Yale 1998). He is currently William Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the English Department of Syracuse University, a university in Syracuse, New York, United States. He serves currently as a member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) Committee of the New variourum Shakespeare.

What was the Impact of this Scholar in/to Absu?
 Echeruo was a Pioneer Vice Chancellor  from 1981-1988,He Laid the foundation,all solid both of academic programmes and instructional Facilities at the temporary locations of the University of Etiti and Aba as well as well of the permanat site now Uturu.

Woow the Faculty Desrves to be christened after Him!

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