Michael Chikelu Mbabuike (August 1943 – December 2006) was a Nigerian poet, professor, and

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. He held the chair of African Studies in the Humanities Department at

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of the City University of New York, and was president of the Faculty Senate there. An

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, Mbabuike obtained his

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with honors from the

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campus. He received his

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and

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in literature at the

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, Paris, France. He came to the United States in the late 1970s. In addition to being a professor he was director of the Center for Igbo Studies at Hostos Community College. He was twice president of the New York African Studies Association (NYASA).

Selected works

*1988 "A survey of cultural and normative changes within the Ibo family structure in the last two decades" *1995 "Architecture of a National Literature in Africa: Problematics of Identity and Structure" *1997 ''Nigeria thirty years after the civil war'' *1998 ''Poems of Memory Trips'' Mbabuike, Michael C. (1998) ''Poems of Memory Trips'' Sungai, Princeton, New Jersey,

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Brief biography of Michael C. Mbabuike from KWENU
accessed 30 December 2008

accessed 30 December 2008 1943 births 2006 deaths 20th-century poets 20th-century linguists Nigerian Africanists Igbo poets Igbo linguists Nigerian emigrants to the United States Linguists from Nigeria University of Paris alumni Igbo writers University of Nigeria alumni Hostos Community College faculty {{Africa-studies-bio-stub

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