Professor Ohadike was born
in Nigeria. He joined the faculty of the Africana Center in
the fall of 1989. He holds a B.A. in history from the University
of Nigeria, a master's in history from the University of Birmingham
in England, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Jos
in Nigeria. At the University of Jos he taught and headed the
Department of History. He also served as a visting scholar at
Northwestern and Stanford Universities, where he received numerous
grants which allowed him to research African colonial history.
Dr. Ohadike's research interests include Pre-Colonial African
History, Contemporary African Labor History, African Economic
History, Slavery and Emancipation, and Religion and Politics
in Africa. Among the courses that he has taught at Africana
are: The History of African Political Thought; Resistance Movements
in Africa and the Diaspora; African Civilizations & Cultures;
African History 1800-Present; Pan-African Protest & Resistance
and The Power & Dimensions of Revolutionary Thought and
Action. Professor Ohadike has published five books, among which
are: The Ekumeku Movement: Western Igbo Resistance to the British
Conquest of Nigeria, 1883-1914; Anioma: A Social History of
the Western Igbo People; and Pan-African Culture of Resistance:
A History of Liberation Struggles in Africa and the Diaspora.
He also wrote an introduction to Things Fall Apart, the famous
classic by fellow Nigerian Chinue Achebe. Some of the many different
posts he has held at Cornell include Campus Faculty Fellow,
1990-1998, and Faculty-in-Residence, 1998-2002. In the fall
semester of 2000, he received the outstanding Faculty of the
Year Award from the Interfraternity Council, the Multicultural
Greek Letter Council and Panhellenic Association.
