Ebere Onwudiwe

In 2013 Onwudiwe hosted his own show "The Conference" on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the show was also available internationally on Nigerian Television Authority International (NTAi). On the show he discussed important domestic issues with various stakeholders in Nigerian civil society and government.

Onwudiwe has served as a governance consultant with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was a co-writer of the 2007 African Governance Report recently published by the Oxford University Press, has served in national committees of Federal Government of Nigeria and the Government of the Federal Capital Territory, and was a consultant to the Federal government-constituted Technical Committee on the Niger Delta.

He revived the Journal of Human Relations changed its name to The International Journal of African Studies (IJAS), and became its editor from 1997 to 2007. The now defunct IJAS has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, 90 per cent of them written by African academics whose scholarship often rarely make it into mainstream Eurocentric journals.

Onwudiwe was educated at the American College of Switzerland, 1979 and University of Science and Arts, 1980. He received a M.Sc. (Econs), M.A. (Int'l Relations) and PH.D in (Pol Sci.) from Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Ebere Onwudiwe was born in the ancient town of Isu-Njaba in the old Owerri province of Eastern Nigeria to loving Catholic parents, Mazi Simon Onwudiwe Achigaonye and Magdalene Nwamgbede (Memme) Achigaonye. He spent some of his childhood with his uncle in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and in Aba, Abia State where he attended Sacred Heart College, a Catholic secondary school. He left in class 2 as the Nigerian Civil War began in 1967 and joined the Biafran Airforce over a year later (Regimental Wing) serving at the Uli Airport. At the end of the War, he completed his secondary school.