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Prof. Akachi Ezeigbo is the current Chairperson of the Advisory Board, NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature, a multiple award-winning prolific writer and an international scholar, who has taught at universities in Nigeria, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
She was a three-time Head of the English Department at University of Lagos (Unilag), and received the Best Researcher Award in the Arts and the Humanities from Unilag in 2005. She has been awarded visiting Fellowships in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Germany and has given keynote lectures in universities in the USA.
Apart from academic books and scholarly articles in local and international journals, she has published in all genres of literature as a poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer and children’s author. Ezeigbo is a joint winner of The NLNG Prize for Literature in 2007 with her children’s novel entitled My Cousin Sammy.
She is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL), the Literary Society of Nigeria (FLSN), English Scholars Association of Nigeria (FESAN) and Association of Nigerian Authors (FANA).
She was the Vice President of PEN International, Nigerian Centre (2002- 2011) and Vice President of Women Writers Association of Nigeria – WRITA (1995 1999). Akachi Ezeigbo is a Director in the Board of Directors of University Press PLC, Ibadan, and a Member of the Governing Council of the National Institute for Nigerian Languages (NINLAN), Aba. She was the Chair of the Panel of Judges for the 2011 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature.
Ezeigbo is a wife, mother and grandmother.
