Nwando Achebe (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)

Submitted: Wed, September 14, 2011


Nwando Achebe
Professor of African History
Department of History
Michigan State University,
336 Morrill Hall
East Lansing, Michigan 48824  USA

phone:  (517) 432-8222 ext.131
fax:    (517) 353-5599
e-mail: achebe@msu.edu

***On Leave for Academic Year 2011-2012***

Web-page: http://history.msu.edu/people/faculty/nwando-achebe-2/

Affiliation also with African-American, African Studies, and Women in 
International Development at Michigan State University.


Prof. Nwando Achebe received her Ph.D. from the University of 
California, Los Angeles in 2000. She served as a Ford Foundation and 
Fulbright-Hays Scholar-in-Residence at The Hansberry African Studies 
Institute and History Department of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 
1996 and 1998.

She teaches survey and specialized courses in African History, West 
African History and African Women's/Gender History. Her research interests 
involve the use of oral history in the study of women, gender and power in 
West Africa. 

Selected books

The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe. 
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011.  Book web-page: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=406796

Farmers, Traders, Warriors and Kings: Female Power and 
Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 
2005.  Book web-page: http://www.heinemann.com/products/E07078.aspx