Catherine Obianuju Acholonu

**Catherine Obianuju Acholonu** (26 October 1951 – 18 March 2014) na she be Nigerian author, researcher den political activist. Na she serve as de Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to Presido Olusegun Obasanjo on Arts and Culture wey na she be a founder-member of de Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).

## Early life, marriage den education
Na dem born Catherine Acholonu insyd an affluent Catholic Igbo family to Chief Lazarus Emejuru Olumba den Josephine Olumba, for Umuokwara Village, insyd de town of Orlu, Imo State, southeastern region of Nigeria. Na she be de eldest of four kiddies. Na she plete ein primary den secondary education insyd The Holy Rosary School, before dem marry off at de age of 17 to Brendan Douglas Acholonu, a surgeon from de same clan, wey na he then-settle insyd Germany. Na Catherine be subsequently enrolled for de University of Düsseldorf as a student of English, American literature, den Germanic linguistics insyd 1974, from wer na she post-graduate insyd 1977. Insyd 1982, she obtain ein PhD insyd Igbo Studies, thus she cam turn de first African Woman to earn both Masters' den PhD from Dusseldorf. She go on go attend ein first conference for de Ibadan conference on Pan Africanism, next year, wey na she present four papers.

## Death
Acholonu die on 18 March 2014, for an age of 62 from a year-long renal failure.

## Bibliography

### Poems

* "Going Home"
* "Spring's Last Drop"
* "Dissidents"
* "Harvest of War"
* "Other Forms of Slaughter"

; Collections

* *The Spring's Last Drop*, 1985
* *Nigeria in the Year 1999*, 1985
* *Recite and Learn – Poems for Junior Primary Schools*, 1986
* *Recite and Learn – Poems for Senior Primary Schools*, 1986

### Drama den plays

* *Trial of the Beautiful Ones: a play in one act*, Owerri, Nigeria: Totan, 1985—based on the Igbo *ogbanje* myth.
* *The Deal and Who is the Head of State*, Owerri, Nigeria: Totan, 1986
* *Into the Heart of Biafra: a play in three acts*, Owerri, Nigeria: C. Acholonu, 1970

### Essays den non-fiction

* *Western and Indigenous Traditions in Modern Igbo Literature* , 1985.
* *Motherism, The Afrocentric Alternative to Feminism*, 1995.
* *The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano*, 1995, revised 2007.
* *The Earth Unchained: A Quantum Leap in Consciousness: a reply to Al Gore*, 1995.
* *Africa the New Frontier – Towards a Truly Global Literary Theory for the 21st Century*. Lecture Delivered to the Association of Nigerian Authors annual Convention, 2002.
* *The Gram Code of African Adam: Stone Books and Cave Libraries, Reconstructing 450,000 Years of Africa's Lost Civilizations*, 2005
* *They Lived Before Adam: Pre-Historic Origins of the Igbo – The Never-Been-Ruled (Ndi Igbo since 1.6 million B.C.)*, 2009. Winner of the USA-based International Book Awards (2009) in the multi-cultural non-fiction category.
* *The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam: Unearthing Heliopolis/Igbo Ukwu – The Celestial City of the Gods of Egypt and India*, 2010
* *Eden in Sumer on the Niger: Archaeological, Linguistic, and Genetic Evidence of 450,000 Years of Atlantis, Eden and Sumer in West Africa*, 2014

### Books authored

* *The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano: An Anthropological Research*. 1 January 1989
* *The Deal and Who is the Head of State*
* *The Spring's Last Drop*
* *Nigeria in the year 1999* (TOT Series)
* *Into the Heart of Biafra* (TOP Series)
* *Trial of the Beautiful Ones*

### Articles den chapters

* (with Joyce Ann Penfield), "Linguistic Processes of Lexical Innovation in Igbo." *Anthropological Linguistics*. 22 (1980). 118–130.
* "The Role of Nigerian Dancers in Drama." *Nigeria Magazine*. 53.1 (1985). 33–39.
* "The Home of Olaudah Equiano – A Linguistic and Anthropological Research", *The Journal of Commonwealth Literature*. 22.1 (1987). 5–16.
* "L'Igbo Langue Litteraire: Le Cas du Nigeria." [Literary Igbo Language: The Case of Nigeria.] *Notre Librairie: Revue du Livre: Afrique, Caraibes, Ocean Indien*. 98 (Jul–Sept 1989). 26–30.
* "Mother was a Great Man." In *The Heinemann Book of African Women's Writing*. Ed. Charlotte H. Bruner. London: Heinemann, 1993. 7–14.
* "Motherism: The Afrocentric Alternative to Feminism." Ishmael Reed's *Konch Magazine*. (March–April 2002).
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## References


## External links

* Personal Website
* Catherine Obianuju Acholonu on ThriftBooks