Books by Rose Ure Mezu

Women in Chains: Abandonment in Love Relationships in the Fiction of Selected West African Writers (1994) / Songs of the Hearth (1993) /

Homage to My People (2004) / A History of Africana Women's Literature (2004)

 Black Nationalists: Reconsidering Du Bois, Garvey, Booker T. & Nkrumah (1999) Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works (2006)

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Bio-Sketch

Dr. Rose Ure Mezu was born in Nigeria and studied in Port-Harcourt, (Nigeria), Abidjan, (Côte d’Ivoire ), Buffalo (New York) and Paris (France) where she graduated with a Diplôme d’Études  from the Sorbonne. She obtained a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1993, specializing in Francophone and Anglo-phone Feminist Literature. She had been a Commissioner of Social Welfare in Imo State, Nigeria, and is currently an Associate Professor of English, Women Studies and Comparative Literature at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.  She is also the founder and Co-ordinator of WADS: Black Creativity & the State of the Race, which organizes international and interdisciplinary conferences on Africa and the Diaspora.

A widely published scholar, her books include Women in Chains : Abandonment in Love Relationships in the Fiction of Selected West African Writers (1994, Songs of the Hearth (1993), Homage to My People (2004), A History of Africana Women's Literature (2004), and with Dr S. Okechukwu Mezu, Black nationalists: Reconsidering Du Bois, Garvey, Booker T. & Nkrumah (1999), Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works (2006)

She has published numerous articles in magazines in Africa, America and the Commonwealth.  An Afrocentric scholar and exponent of Womanism, Dr. Rose Ure Mezu is the Founder/Coordinator of Morgan State University Forum, and  the International, Interdisciplinary Black Creativity Conference - Writers of African Descent Speak (WADS).  A former Commissioner for Social Welfare in the civilian government of Imo State of Nigeria, Dr. Rose Ure Mezu designed to help the urban population bridge the digital divide.

She gives public lectures on Women, Pan-Africanist, and motivational issues.

http://jewel.morgan.edu/~rmezu/index.html  http://blackacademypress.com/html/mb/index.php

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Table

An Africana Blueprint for Living   Africana Women: Their Historic Past and future Activism   Black Nationalists  Reconsidering Du Bois, Garvey, Booker T. & Nkrumah (1999)       Contents Black Nationalists: Reconsidering Du Bois, Garvey, Booker T. & Nkrumah       Introduction to Black Nationalists: Reconsidering Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works (2006)      Introduction  Preface and Contents      Women in Achebe's World    The Fourth World Multiculturalism as Antidote to Global Violence   A History of Africana Women's Literature (2004)        Contents of A History of Africana Women's Literature      Introduction Homage to My People (2002)       Introduction Homage to My People   Leadership, Culture, and Racism   Of National and Racial Archetypes   Photo Exhibit       Igbo Marriage Pope John Paul II: A Life with a Mission Religion and Society (1999)        Preface to Religion & Society     Religion and Society Contents  Songs of the Hearth (1997)      Introduction to Songs of the Hearth        Songs Contents   Poems A Birthday Prayer    Chiege, Woman of Splendor    Obinna   To My Daughters and Kelechi    To Our Lady, Queen of Peace   Voices: At A Catholic Black Church  Women in Chains (1994)      Women in Chains Contents    Women in Achebe's World   Related files Achebe Another Birthday in Exile  The African World   Banning Chinua Achebe in Kenya  Mezu and Achebe: An Inside Knowledge Nigerian Elections 2007  (S. Okechukwu Mezu) Okonkwo's Curse Reading Rose Ure Mezu's Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works: Reviews & Responses Transitional Writings on Africa

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updated 4 October 2007