Chinweizu Ibekwe

Nigerian poet and critic Chinweizu Ibekwe (Chinweizu) was born in 1943. He earned a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1967. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and published his dissertation as The West and the Rest of Us: White Predators, Black Slavers, and the African Elite (Random House, 1975). A notable columnist with The Guardian, a Nigerian newspaper, he has held teaching positions at MIT and San Jose State University. With Jemie Onwuchekwa and Ihechukwu Madubuike, a troika known as the Bolekaja critics, he published Toward the Decolonization of African Literature in 1983. His poetry appeared in Transition Magazine in the 1970s.