Emeka Esogbue

Published Sunday, May 31, 2026 Emeka Esogbue, Profile of a Community Leader and Historian By Josephine Nwabueze Emeka Esogbue is a  Nigerian community leader, historian, journalist, researcher, and cultural advocate whose work has focused on the preservation, documentation, and promotion of Anioma history and heritage. Through his leadership roles in community and cultural organizations, historical research, and public engagement on issues affecting the Anioma people, he has contributed to efforts aimed at strengthening cultural identity, fostering community development, and preserving the historical legacy of his people for future generations. His writings, research projects, and organizational activities have earned him recognition as a prominent voice in Anioma cultural and historical affairs. As a historian, Esogbue has devoted much of his scholarship to documenting the origins, migrations, institutions, and cultural traditions of the Anioma people. His published works, includi...

 Book of Records: A Compendium of Ibusa Firsts and Achievers By Emeka Esogbue About the Book The book, "Book of Records: A Compendium of Ibusa Firsts and Achievers is an effort by the author to document as well as present the achievements of the Ibusa people to the world. The book covers the entire spectrum of human endeavours in which successes of the Ibusa of people were made.  The book is authored by Dr. Emeka Esogbue it is his 6th book.  Foreword: Prof Vincent Icheku Cover page commentary: Dr. Austin Obidi No of pages: 78 Publisher: Caro'Phem Communications Limited  

Culture lovers and students of various tertiary institutions in the nation on Monday, December 31, 2012 gathered in Ibusa in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State to celebrate the first annual Igbuzo Day organized by the National Association of Ibusa Students (NAIBS). The occasion was marked with a beauty pageant tagged “Face of NAIBS” and dancing competition for cultural groups of Ibusa extraction. Mr. Emeka Esogbue who stood in for the Caretaker Chairman of Oshimili North Local Government Area as the Chairman of the Occasion stressed on the need to preserve Ibusa culture, noting that change was inevitable in the community. He described Ibusa as a close-knit community with unique beliefs, rules of behavior, language, rituals, arts, technology, styles of dress, ways of producing, cooking food, religion, political and economic systems. Mr. Esogbue lamented that the community’s festivals and native dance are increasingly facing extinction even as heritage of peace is...

Emeka Esogbue caught up with very beautiful Isabella Williams in Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. Isabella, a model, fashion enthusiast and one of the contestants of the current Miss Nigeria University pageant spoke on her undying love for fashion, prettiness and how she hopes to win the pageant. She also spoke on how she managed to convince her mother to allow her feature in the contest. The 200-level Library and Information student of Delta State University, Abraka tells her own story in this interview. Excerpts: Emeka Esogbue: How may our readers meet you? Isabella Williams: I am Isabella Chidinma Williams, the first in a family of six. Isabella is a 200-year level student, currently studying Library and Information Science at the Delta State University, Abraka. I believe so much in humanity and in love with nature. I am 5’11 feet tall. Emeka Esogbue: (laughing) Chidinma, you are not only beautiful but amazingly tall. Doesn’t your heig...

BOOK REVIEW Title: Wild Ixora Author: Philip Ngozi Ifechukwude Publisher/Year: Carophem/2013 Review by: Emeka Esogbue Date Reviewed: 2015 It is a 136-page novel set in a small community of Isubogu. It beautifully opens with a 6-line poetic prologue, delightfully subdivided into 14 chapters, numbered but untitled. This particular edition has been revised to create clever plot and enhance readability. Chapter one begins with the scintillating description of the atmosphere which in turn foreshadows the surrounding influence of events. The writer discerningly considers this environment naturally suiting to the backdrop therefore, readers are let into the author’s admiration for nature but sadly, nature hardly gives anyone what he desires but what nature itself wishes. Reader’s emotion is again drawn to the physically-challenged state of Agoziem, the protagonist. This state of deformity is in reality, a literary allusion to the author’s present condition as he recal...