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Victor C. Uchendu [page title]

Victor Chikezie Uchendu, Nigerian sociologist and leading scholar on Igbo civilization, was born in Nsimiro, Nigeria in late 1929 or early 1930. His exact birth date is uncertain, but his mother was pregnant with him during the Aba Women's Riot in 1929 and therefore could not participate in it. The date of January 1, 1930 is conventionally used as his birth date. [source] He was a professor of sociology and anthropology for over thirty years, and was the founding director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Uchendu was one of the first Africans to publish a monograph about his own ethnic group [source? true? correct terminology?]