Nwando Achebe

**Nwando Achebe**  (ma bi ọjọ ẹkebie ochu ẹta ọdọ 1970), che ẹnẹ Nigerian-American ki ya ch'ukọchẹ, ẹnẹ ki ya d'eju tẹ ukọchẹ, ẹnẹ ki ch'ukọchẹ uja nwu abobulẹ, kpai ẹnẹ ki ya kp'ita. She is a University Distinguished Professor, Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History, and the Associate Dean for Access, Faculty Development, and Strategic Implementation in the College of Social Science at Michigan State University. Onwu che uchanẹ editor-in-chief eyi *Journal of West African History*. I che ukọlọ oji ọhiala19th- kpai 20th century ami ẹnwu ọgu, ijabe, uche kpai amonẹ, kpai ọlọjọ ki kp'ejuru abobulẹ manyu ẹnẹkẹlẹ kpai onobulẹ.

## Olayi ejodudu kpai Ukọchẹ
Ma bi Nwando Achebe yi Enugu, ọwọ olu odudu Nigeria nwu ẹnẹ Naijeriya ki ya k'ọtakida, ẹnẹ ki ya kọ ẹnwu ki jiji kpai ẹnẹ ki ya kọ ita, Chinua Achebe kpai Christie Chinwe Achebe, ki che professor eyi ukọchẹ.

Achebe gba Ph.D. yi efu African History kwi University of California, Los Angeles efu ọdọ 2000. I che ẹnẹ ki ya k'ọhiala kpai alu l'efu ukọchẹ, ugbo ki mọ nyọnyọ che Ọhiala West Africa , Abobulẹ, ami ọhiala ọnẹkẹlẹ abẹki onobulẹ nder kpai sexuality.

## Ukọlọ
Efu ọdọ 1996 kpai 1998, Achebe che Ẹnẹ ki ya ch'ukọchẹ - ki gwugwu nwu Ford Foundation kpai Fulbright-Hays yi Institute of African Studies kpai The Department of History and International Studies yi University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Uña ukọchẹ nwu ejodudu che arọne professor eyi history yi College of William and Mary. Ubi lẹ I le ti Michigan State University efu ọdọ 2005  associate professor ki nẹgba ki ya kpoji, professor efu ọdọ 2010, abajoyi I la che University Distinguished Professor manyu the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor gẹ.

Achebe che ẹnẹ ka efu Nigerian Academy of Letters kpai President eyi African Studies Association.

## Ọtakida ekọ
Achebe chẹ kọ ọtakida mẹta dufu. Ọtakida nwu ejodudu, *Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900–1960*, ẹnẹ ki che dufu che Heinemann efu ọdọ 2005. Abo kuma ach'ukọchẹ dabi Isidore Okpewho, kpai Obioma Nnaemeka che ujiwe nwu ka ki i du ẹnwu ogbogaga t'efu ukọchẹ ita ọhiala Africa, ami ukọchẹ ẹnẹkẹlẹ kpai onobulẹ, manyu ẹrida ijabe kpai ọlọjọ ẹgba ki a'mẹnẹfu dẹ. Abo kuma ago ẹnwu Simon Ottenberg kpai Edna G. Bay jẹnyu Achebe todu alu ki du ẹnwu ki ya n'ọkọ wa abobulẹ kpai ekwu ọlọjọ kuma a che nẹ r'eju ny'ọgẹgẹnẹ manyu du ukpahiu tọ kaki ohi anana ki kojọ kw'ugbọda ma neke ka ekwu ki ya che nwu anẹr'eju ugbo ukp'uchẹ eyi abobulẹ Igbo yi ef'uwo ẹgba ki a'mẹnẹfu dẹ n. Ọtakida lẹ du ẹnwu ki l'ugbo “ọna ki onobulẹ a ch'ẹnwu” tegugede ki che ẹnwu kuma a le bọ, manyu ami  Igbo kuma dẹ ọwọ anẹ ami akechi kuma dodo ọna ki ami ukọchẹ a kw'obi ma dẹ n, i ko ma jọ dabu abo kuma chẹ d'efu ukọlọ eche kuma ñ'ọwọlẹ ojanẹ lẹ che. Ọgbọdu iko ki che ukọchẹ ami Igbo kuma dẹ ọwọ anẹ ami akechi ma dù mi ọhiala ki l'ugbo ẹnẹkẹlẹ abẹki onobulẹ t'ene ki l'ugbo ẹnwu ki amonẹ neju ki chẹ kpọrane ki ch'ujiwe abobulẹ Africa dabu abo kuma dẹ ọganẹ, ki ko ẹnwu ujíwè ukpahiu onobulẹ of female kpai ọda ki nẹ efu ojanẹ jọ.

Ọtakida nwu ekeji, *The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: [[Ahebi Ugbabe]]*, ma che dufu ọdọ 2011 abo kuma che chi  Indiana University Press. It che ọgbọdu ujiji ọhiala onẹ oji onobulẹ kate ki che aj'ọfẹ ki ya j'ogu kpai omi ojanẹ British Africa. Ọtakida lẹ chẹ gba uloko mẹta: the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize, the Barbara "Penny" Kanner Book Prize, kpai the Gita Chaudhuri Book Prize. Ego kuma go yiLeeds African Studies Bulletin che ujiwe nwu “oka efu abo kuma k'onẹ ẹchẹ kuma j'iñwa nwu, ẹnwu ukọchẹ kuma kọ efu ugbo ukọchẹ ọhiala kpai ukọchẹ abobulẹ kuma che utene nwu nyọnyọ ẹgba ki ki ami ẹnẹfu dẹ ojanẹl Igbo, Nigeria kpai Africa." 

Achebe che ẹnẹ ka efu abo kuma kọ  2018 *History of West Africa E-Course Book* (British Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2018), ọtakida ukọchẹ nwu amọma ukọchẹ kuma a nya kọ thè West African Senior School Certificate Examination. I che ẹnẹ ka efu abo kuma nwọche manyu William Worger kpai Charles Ambler eyi *A* *Companion to African History* (Wiley Blackwell, 2019), manyu kpai Claire Robertson, *Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective* (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). Ọtakida. Achebe 2020 *Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa*  Ohio University Press che dufu. Laura Seay eyi The Washington Post, che ujiwe *Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa* dabu"ẹnwu oji umẹnwu, ki ya jẹnwu onẹ ki dibe tọ nyọnyọ kpai ọtakida ki onẹ neke li ẹgba duu."

## Olayi nwu ka te
Iche ọya Folu Ogundimu, professor eyi journalism yi Michigan State University manyu I che iye ọma onobulẹ ka, Chino. Achọgba nwu ọnẹkẹlẹ che, Chidi Chike Achebe ki che physician-executive.

## Ẹ'tejugede ami Uloko
Nwando Achebe chẹ gba ọkọ ki ma ra dabi n kwi Wenner Gren Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright-Hays, Ford Foundation, the World Health Organization kpai National Endowment for the Humanities. I ñọ che ẹnẹ ki gba uloko ọtakida mẹta.

## Ami ọyakida ki kọ
* *Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern [[Igboland]], 1900–1960.* 
* *The Female King of  Colonial Nigeria: [[Ahebi Ugbabe]].* 
* *History of West Africa E-Course Book.* 
* *A Companion to African History.* 
* *Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective.* 
* *Female Monarchs and Merchants Queens in Africa*. 

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