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Name

Prof. Francis Ibe Mogu

Department

English & Literary Studies

Designation

Professor

Email

[email protected]

About Prof. Francis Ibe Mogu

EDUCATION: 1999: Ph.D. English (African-American Literature), University of Lagos, Yaba – Lagos, Nigeria. 1990: M.A. English with Honors (African & African Diaspora Literature), University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria - First Person from the University of Calabar to graduate with a Master’s Degree within an Academic Year. 1988: National Youth Service Corps (N.Y.S.C.), University of Sokoto (Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto), Sokoto State - Nigeria. 1987: B. A. with Honors (English & Literary Studies) Second Class Upper Division, University of Calabar. 1981: Higher School Certificate (Advanced Level), Mary Knoll Secondary School, Okuku - Ogoja, Nigeria. 1979: West African School Certificate (Division Two), Mary Knoll Secondary School, Okuku – Ogoja. 1974: First School Leaving Certificate (with Distinction), St. Charles Primary School, Ukpe, Nkum, OGOJA, Cross River State, NIGERIA. RESEARCH INTERESTS: 1. African and African Diaspora Literatures (Colonial, Postcolonial to the Present) 2. African-American Literature in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries 3. Gender / Women’s Studies (Black Feminist Criticism) 4. Caribbean Literature (C18th to C20th) 5. English Literature (Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration to the Twentieth Century) 6. Critical Theory (From Plato to Contemporary Times). He has many Publication and Conferences to name.

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“The Relevance of Proverbs in African Epistemology,” with Emmanuel Efem Etta” in Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2012 (68-78). Beijing, CHINA: Universal Academic Services and Linghua Tong Culture Communications (ISSN 1813-2227).
“Literacy as a Tool for Cultural Independence: Female Aspirations and Achievements in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Buchi Emecheta’s Kehinde,” for the 6th Pan- African Reading for All Conference, University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, August 10-14, 2009 in Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 7.2, ( 2010) Pp. 125-134. Beijing, China: Universal Academic Services (ISSN 1813-2227).
“Mother as a Survival Strategy in Maya Angelou’s I Know why the Cage Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman,”(with Leonard Obina Onwuegbuche and Ebele Ofoma Eko) in CALEL - Currents in African Literature and the English Language, Vol. 6, May 2009 (Pp.10-22). Calabar, Nigeria: Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Calabar, 2009 (ISSN 1597-3611).
“Things Fall Apart across Cultures: The Universal Significance of Chinua Achebe’s Reconstruction of the African Heritage,” for the 34th Annual African Literature Association Conference, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, IL. 61455, USA (April 22-27, 2008) in Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 6, No. 1, June 2009 (182-190). Kwaluseni: Lwati Swaziland (ISSN 1813-2227).
“The Corruption of Indigenous African Culture through the Use of English: An Assessment of Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born,” for the 5th Department of English International Conference, University of Botswana, Gaborone, June 2-4, 2009.
“Unfettered Expression and Human Dignity: Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter, The Big Sea and Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah,” in Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 4, June 2007 (Pp.). Kwaluseni: Lwati Swaziland (ISSN 1813-2227).
“Dialogue and Outrage in the Literature of the African Diaspora: Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Richard Wright’s Black Boy,” in Lwati: A Journal Of Contemporary Research, Vol. 3, June 2006 (Pp.98-108). Kwaluseni: Lwati Swaziland (ISSN 1813-2227).
“The Relevance of Chinua Achebe, Langston Hughes and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to the African Renaissance,” for the 3rd University of Botswana International Conference on Language & Literature, Gaborone – Botswana, June 2005, in The Study and Use of English in Africa – Chapter 16 (London: CSP publishers, 2006).
“Gender as a Sign-Post to Identity: Feminist Impulse in Lucy Dlamini’s The Amaryllis and Sembéne Ousmane’s God’s Bits of Wood,” in The African Literature Journal (Enugu: Nigeria: Chin-Ce Press, 2005).
“Literary Models for National Enlightenment: Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter and Zaynab Alkali’s The Virtuous Woman,” for the International Reading Association 4th Pan-African Reading for All Conference, Ezulwini, Swaziland, August 2005 - A Pan African Reading for All Text, Vol. 3, 2005.
“The Conflict of the West and the Centre in Chukwuemeka Ike’s The Bottled Leopard,” in Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 1, No.1, Pp.14-19, Manzini – Swaziland: TTI Publishing /Contemporary theory Group, June 2004.
“Beyond the Igbo Cosmos: Achebe’s Things Fall Apart as a Cross-Cultural Novel,” in Isi Nka: The Artistic Purpose – Chinua Achebe and the Theory of African Literature: A Millennium Text (Chapter Four). Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, Inc., 2002.
“The Nigerian Response to American Democracy: A Review of Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah and Richard Wright’s Native Son and Black Boy,” in Consolidation and Sustenance of Democracy: The United States of America and Nigeria, ed. S. O. O. Amali, et al. Ibadan: Hope Publications Ltd., 2002, (ISBN 978-35981-9-8).
“Religion as a Vehicle for Cultural Cohesion: Zaynab Alkali’s The Virtuous Woman, The Still Born and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain,” in Religion in the United States of America, ed. S. O. O. Amali et al. Ibadan: Hope Publications Ltd., 2002.
“Corruption as a Repellant of Democracy: Achebe as the Conscience of the Nigerian Nation,” in Twentieth Century Major African Authors, ed. Ernest Emenyonu. New York: Africa World Press, 2002.
“The African Response to American Feminism – A Reading of Flora Nwapa and Alice Walker,” in Black Women Writers Across Cultures, Chapter Five, pp. 89 – 120, ed. Valentine James & James S. Etim, Baltimore, MD.: International Scholars Pub., 2001.
“The Struggle for Conclusion in the Scheme of Things: Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun, James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie and Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun,” in The Empowerment of the Civil Society in a Democracy: Nigeria and the United States, ed. Oyin Ogunba. Ife: Anchor Print Ltd., 2000.
“Womanism as an Antidote to the Problem of Representation of Female Characters in Works of Black Male Writers,” in Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 1 No. 1, ed. Joseph Yakubu and Patrick Oloko (pp. 69 – 86), Ago-Iwoye: Ogun State University, 1999.

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Sole Participant from the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the Twentieth American Studies Colloquium, Goree Institute, Dakar-Senegal, May 3-7, 2003. 2003-05-032003-05-07
Participant in the University of Swaziland Institute of Distance Education Residential Writers Workshop, Orion Hotel, Piggs Peak, Swaziland, June 20 – 26, 2004. 2004-06-202004-06-26
Participant in the Seventh General Association of University Teachers of Literature and Language of Southern Africa (ATOLL), University of Swaziland , Kwaluseni Campus, August 1 – 5, 2004.2004-08-012004-08-05
Participant at the 3rd International Conference on Language & Literature, University of Botswana, Gaborone - Botswana, June 12-18, 2005. 2005-06-122005-06-18
Participant in the International Reading Association 4th Pan-African Reading for all Conference, Royal Swazi Convention Center, Ezulwini – Swaziland, July 21-26, 2005. 2005-07-212006-07-26
Participant in the University of Swaziland Institute of Distance Education Residential Writers Workshop, Orion Hotel, Piggs Peak, Swaziland, June 26 – July 1, 2006. 2006-06-262006-07-01
Participant in the Annual African Literature Association (ALA) Conference at the Western Illinois University (WIU), Macomb, Illinois, U.S.A., April 22 – 27, 2008. 2008-04-222008-04-27
Participant in the 5th Department of English International Conference, University of Botswana, Gaborone, June 2-4, 2009.2009-06-022009-06-04
Participant in the 6th Pan-African Reading for All Conference, University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, August 10-14, 2009. 2009-08-102009-08-14