Draft:Chika Ezeanya Esiobu

The following Wikipedia contributor may be personally or professionally connected to the subject of this article. Relevant policies and guidelines may include conflict of interest, autobiography, and neutral point of view. Chika Ezeanya Esiobu is a Nigerian nonfiction and fiction writer and researcher. Her area of research interest is the intersection between Indigenous knowledge and sustainability, especially as it relates to Africa's advancement discourse. In addition to being the author of ''Education and Indigenous Knowledge in Africa. ,'' Chika Esiobu has published numerous academic articles, essays and short stories.

Life
Chika Esiobu was born in Nigeria. She received her B.A. in Government and Public Administration from Abia State University, Uturu. She received a Masters in International Relations from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. Chika Esiobu earned a doctorate in African studies from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She won the Frederick Douglass Doctoral Scholars Assistantship in the early years of her studies. Later, she won the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Foundation Fund to complete her dissertation.

Chika Esiobu was a faculty member and Director of Research and Postgraduate Education at the University of Rwanda, College of Business and Economics (formerly School of Finance and Banking), Mburabutoro, Rwanda, between 2011 and 2016.

Between 2008 and 2011, Chika Esiobu worked as a World Bank consultant in Nigeria and later in Rwanda. Her work with the World Bank focused on programs that worked with rural farmers to ensure sustainable land use.

Between 2015 and 2017, Chika worked on an International Development Research Center project on "Leveraging Indigenous Technology to Create Employment for Women in Rural Areas in Rwanda ."

Chika Esiobu's has collaborated with such organizations as the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) , the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) , and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).

Chika Esiobu has been invited to share her ideas on Indigenous knowledge and sustainability at TED Global, Yale University , Cambridge University, the London School of Economics , the Pan-African Parliament, the United Nations , the African Union, the Social Science Research Council, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the University of South Africa , and Standard Bank South Africa, among others.

Creative Writing
Chika Esiobu's fiction manuscript was shortlisted for the Penguin Publishers Prize for African Writing in 2010. She has written numerous short stories. Her works have appeared on Iskanchi Press, Pan African Review , Pambazuka News and Sahara reporters.

Selected Academic work
Esiobu, C., et al. (2023). Critical Review of the United States Government’s Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies on Indigenous Knowledge: The Department of Education in Perspective. Fourth World Journal, 23(1), 124-132.

Esiobu, C. (2022). Falolalism: The epistemologies and methodologies of Africana knowledge by Abdul Karim Bangura. Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies, 43(2).

Esiobu, C. (2022). The changing face of colonial education in Africa: education, science, and development by Peter Kallaway. Historical Studies in Education, Fall Issue.

Esiobu, C. (2021). Women and indigenous knowledge in Africa. In T. Falola & O. Yacob-Haliso (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of African Women Studies. Palgrave Macmillan.

Esiobu, C., et al. (2021). Marginalization of indigenous knowledge in African education: The case of Rwandan traditional medicinal treatments for livestock. ''African Innovation and Research OPEN AIR. Working Paper 2.''

Esiobu, C. (2020). Higher Education across the global south: From epistemological suicide to epistemological plurality. Higher Education in the World Report 2020, 7, 119-122. Link to the report

Esiobu, C., et al. (2019). Rural women economic empowerment, indigenous fermented milk production, and the challenges of modernity. Indigenous Knowledge: Other Ways of Knowing, 3(5), 119-142.

Esiobu, C., et al. (2018a). Indigenous beverage production and economic empowerment of rural women in Rwanda. Indigenous Knowledge: Other Ways of Knowing, 3(5), 1-25.

Esiobu, C., et al. (2018b). Indigenous vegetable production and rural women economic empowerment in Africa: Reality, prospects, and challenges in Rwanda. Indigenous Knowledge: Other Ways of Knowing, 3(3), 133-156.

Ezeanya, C. (2018). Innovation, education and development in Africa. In T. Falola & S. Olonrontuba (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Politics, Governance and Development in Africa (pp. 829-839). Palgrave-Macmillan.

Ezeanya, C. (2017). The rise of homegrown ideas and grassroots voices: New directions in social policy in Rwanda. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Working Paper 2017(6), 1-31.

Ezeanya, C., & Kennedy, A. (2017). Integrating clean energy use in national poverty alleviation strategies: opportunities and challenges in Rwanda’s Girinka program. In Political Economy of Clean Energy Use (pp. 1-13). United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (Eds.). Oxford University Press.

Ezeanya, C. (2016). Research, innovation and indigenous knowledge in sub-Saharan Africa: In search of a nexus. In A. Heshmati (Ed.), Economic Integration, Currency Union, and Sustainable Growth in East Africa (Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, AAESP) (pp. 99–114),. Springer.

Ezeanya, C. (2015). William Beinhart and Karen Brown. (2013). African Local Knowledge and Livestock Health Treatment: Diseases and Treatments in South Africa—A Book Review. African Studies Quarterly, 5(4), 92–93.

Ezeanya, C. (2015). Home-grown and grassroots-based strategies for determining inequality towards policy action: Rwanda’s Ubudehe approach in perspective. United Nations University World Institute for Development Research Working Paper Series, 2015/008 .

Ezeanya, C. (2015). Indigenous knowledge, education quality and prosperity. Legatum Institute, London: The Africa Prosperity Report 2014, 17-20. Link to the report

Ezeanya, C. (2014). Corruption and citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa: A historical analysis. In G. Mudacumura and G. Morcol (Eds.), Challenges to Democratic Governance in Developing Countries (pp. 181–194). Springer.

Ezeanya, C. (2014). Abdul Karim Bangura’s African Mathematics: From Bones to Computers – A Book Review. African Studies Quarterly, 14(4), 81-82.

Ezeanya, C. (2014). Zikism: The Fourth Pillar, Indigenous Knowledge and Africa’s Advancement. Journal of African Philosophy, 10(1), 1-26.

Ezeanya, C. (2014). A Model for Development Built on Indigenous Foundations. Science Development, June 4 .

Ezeanya, C. (2014). Indigenous Knowledge, Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment in Rwanda: The Girinka Approach. Journal of Pan African Studies, 6(10), 241-263.

Schendel, R., Mazimhaka J., & Ezeanya C. (2013). Higher Education for Development in Rwanda. International Higher Education Winter #70, 19–21.

Ezeanya, C. (2013). Contending Issues of Intellectual Property Rights and Africa’s Indigenous Pharmacology. Journal of Pan African Studies, 6(5), 24-43.

Ezeanya, C., & Satya, M. (2012). Indigenous Textbooks and Case Studies as Effective Tools in Business and Management Education: A Comparative Analysis of Indian versus African Business Literature. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2(10), 396-410.

Selected Recent Essays
Chika Esiobu has been writing essays since 2004. She was a columnist for NewsAfrica magazine between 2004 and 2010. Her works have been published by Pambazuka News, The Conversation , Canadian Geographic , NewAfrican Magazine , Muslim Science , SciDev and others. She is currently a columnist with Pan African Review Magazine

Esiobu, C. Crafting an Education System for Africa’s Liberation. PanAfrican Review October 10, 2023.

Esiobu, C. Recentering Claude Ake in the Emerging PanAfrican Movement. PanAfrican Review September 20, 2023.

Esiobu, C. Indebted for Knowledge’s Sake: A Look at Nigeria’s Student Loan Act. PanAfrican Review July 3, 2023.

Esiobu, C. Africa’s Imhotep, the Real Father of Modern Medicine. PanAfrican Review June 1, 2023.

Esiobu, C. Restoring the Land Rights of the Garifuna African People of Honduras. PanAfrican Review May 27, 2023.

Esiobu, C. Disposable Sanitary Pad use in Africa: Health, Economic and Environmental Hazards. PanAfrican Review May 4, 2023.

Esiobu, C. Uterine Fibroids: Some Causes and Possible African Traditional Remedies. PanAfrican Review April 20, 2023.

Esiobu, C. Was Bantu Expansion a Form of Settler Colonialism? PanAfrican Review March 24, 2023.

Esiobu, C. From Illicit Financial Flows to Wealth Creation for Africans: Some Strategic Concepts. PanAfrican Review March 16, 2023.

Esiobu, C. What will it take for Nigeria’s New Language of Instruction Policy to Succeed? PanAfrican Review January 16, 2023.

Esiobu, C. Recentering Claude Ake in the Emerging PanAfrican Movement. PanAfrican Review September 20, 2023.

Esiobu, C. Privatization of Education and the Trauma of School Fees Payment on African Societies. PanAfrican Review November 28, 2022.

Esiobu, C. Pebbles, swords and conquering giants: Indigenous knowledge and Africa’s accelerated advancement. PanAfrican Review November 15, 2022.

Esiobu, C. "Decolonizing Africa's Taste Buds towards Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture." PanAfrican Review September 22, 2022.

Esiobu, C. "Beauty, Health, Exfoliative and Environmental Benefits of the African Traditional Bath Sponge." PanAfrican Review June 16, 2022.