Emeka Esogbue

 Commentaries and Views on Emeka Esogbue's Scholarship Hometown: Ibusa State of Origin: Delta Nationality: Nigerian Alma Mater: Lagos State University Lagos Academic Discipline: History/Diplomacy  Profession: History/Journalism Moniker: The Pen Master What they said about him. "Because large bulks of cultural and historical knowledge about Anioma people are still in the oral mode, what is very safe to say or write is that Emeka Esogbue stands out as Anioma's most published historian. This recognition of Emeka's exploits in the print culture is important, because it helps us to come to terms with the transition of his scholarship between orality and 'documentation'. He makes clear that the strength of his work lies in that pedagogic and epistemological nexus. His pre-occupation with Anioma history is very far-reaching, very exploratory, yet continues to burgeon into multiple frontiers of knowledge about the people of that area...because just as much as a squirre...

  The Ibusa Sense of Republicanism is in the Extreme - Kizito Ijeh, Politician and Initiator of People of Oshimili North Chief Kizito Ijeh, the Dike Di Oha Nma of Ute Ogbeje is a household name in Ibusa community. The ace politician, one of the founders of the APC in Delta State recently marked his birthday in the community and amid the friends and well-wishers that came to celebrate with him; PEN MASTER (EMEKA ESOGBUE) found the opportunity to engage him in a media chat. In this interview, Chief Kizito Osadebe Ijeh makes mind-boggling revelations on his personality, upbringing, political gains and losses by the Ibusa community, why he decamped from APC to join PDP, the state of NGOS on youth development and the current Uwolo tussle. He identifies disunity as the major factor standing between the Ibusa community and its development and thinks that the pursuit of Anioma State in the Southeast is not only unnecessary but an impossible task in the present Nigerian composition. E...