Raphaël Chukwu Uiwue

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Raphaël Chukwu Uwartue (born May 13, 1935 in Ogwashi-Uku Delta (state) ; † March 13, 2014 in Abuja , often abbreviated as Ralph Uwachue ) was a Nigerian diplomat, head of the African Today publishing house and politician. Until 2010 he was general chairman of the Ogwashi-Ukwu Ethno-Association and was allowed to use the traditional title Ogwuluzame.

Career

From 1949 to 1954 U Wechsue attended Rimini College in Kaduna (Nigeria) , which he graduated with a scholarship, where he was employed as a teacher for the following 18 months. He graduated from the University of Ibadan with a BA (Hons) in history in 1960. From 1963 to 1964 he received his diploma in international law and French from the University Institute for International Studies and Development in Geneva. He married his wife Autusta Ogwu in 1960 and had five children. He joined the foreign service in 1960 and was employed in Cameroon, Pakistan and Mali.

In 1966 he opened the Nigerian Embassy in Paris as the first envoy. From July 6, 1967 to January 15, 1970 during the Biafra War , he acted as Biafra's ambassador to France. At the École pratique des hautes études . he was a doctoral candidate in political science from 1970 to 1975 . He retired in 1970 and founded and managed publishing houses.

He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the "Know Africa" ​​books published in French and English. He was also the publisher of Africa Who's Who and Makers of Modern Africa. From May 13, 2003 to April 4, 2004 he headed the United Nations Mission in Côte d'Ivoire .

Publications as a publisher

  • Africa Who's Who.
  • Makers of Modern Africa
  • Africa Today

Publications as an author

  • Africa without civil war: What the bloody conflict in Nigeria teaches , Düsseldorf; Vienna: Econ-Verlag 1969

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Ex ohaneze ndigbo president nendung laid to rest, report of his death in The Eagle Online, accessed October 3, 2017
  2. ^ Rimini College The college was established in 1949 by the Christian missionaries as St. John's College and handed over to Kaduna State government in 1972
  3. ^ John J. Stremlau, The International Politics of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970, p. 224
  4. ↑ VANGUARD Newspaper Lagos, Nigeria, Necrolog, in a newspaper that had taken over one of its publishers, [1]
  5. ↑ Chris Nwaokocha Agboli, Anioma: Bridgehead to Nigerian Integration a Microcosm of the Nation, [2]
  6. ↑ Ex-Ohaneze N'digbo president, Nendung, laid to rest Adewole Martins, [3]
  7. ↑ Raph U Wechsue, Africa Who's Who, Africa Journal Limited, 1991, p. 1781
personal data
SURNAME Uwechselue, Raphaël Chukwu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uwechselue, Raph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Ogwashi-Uku Delta (State)
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2014
Place of death Abuja