Ernest N. Emenyonu, Ph.D.
Dr. Ernest N. Emenyonu, Professor and Chair, Department of Africana Studies, University of Michigan-Flint is a specialist in African Literature.
Educated at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Teachers College, Columbia University, New York; London University, England; and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Professor Emenyonu holds a Ph.D. in African Literature, a Masters Degree in the Teaching of English as a Foreign / Second Language and a Bachelors Degree with First Class Honors in English / Education.
Professor Emenyonu has published widely on African Literature and the English Language in learned journals in Africa, Europe, India and the United States with a spread of more than a dozen books and over sixty articles in refereed journals all over the world. His articles have appeared in African Literature Today, Research in African Literatures, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Modern Language Journal, Studies in Black Literature, The Literary Criterion, Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives, Kunapipi, Ufahamu, TESOL, Bashiru, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th Century Caribbean and Black African Writers, Okike, Encyclopedia of African Literature (Routledge, 2003), Worldview, The World and I, The Literary Griot, Bookbird, Encyclopedia of the Novel, The Conch, Review of Comparative Literature, Umoja, Africa Report, Pan- African Journal, Callaloo, etc.
His books include Cyprian Ekwensi (1974), The Rise of the Igbo Novel (1978), African Literature for Schools and Colleges (1985), The Essential Ekwensi (1987), Studies on the Nigerian Novel (1991), Trends in Literature and Language Studies in West Africa (1994), Ideas and Challenges in Nigerian Education (1994), Goatskin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives on African Literature (2000), A Good Shepherd: A Biography of The Most Rev. Dr. Benjamin C. Nwankiti (2003), Emerging Perspectives On Chinua Achebe Vol.1: Omenka, the Master Artist: Critical Perspectives on Achebe’s Fiction (2004), Emerging Perspectives On Chinua Achebe, Vol.2 : Isinka, the Artistic Purpose: Chinua Achebe and the Theory of African Literature (2004).