Catherine Obianuju Acholonu’s Biography, Net Worth, Fact, Career, Awards and Life Story
Key Takeaways
Writer Researcher Poet Professor Educator
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/Plays
- Trial of the Beautiful Ones: a play in one act, Owerri, Nigeria: Totan, 1985
- 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 and 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
Articles and 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 Search”, 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).
