This book provides an insight on the life and times of Roseline Ihediwanma Okonkwo. Born on 10 October 1940 in Eluama Isuikwuato, Abia State Nigeria. She was a nurse, mother, grandmother, humanist and a devoted Christian of the Church Missionary Society (Anglican Communion). This book provides an ethno historical background on her place of birth in Isuikwuato, family values, upbringing, marriage and public life as a nurse and health administrator. Furthermore, this volume enhances our understanding of biographical writings and historical traditions in multiplicity of ways. Significantly, the book challenges the assertion made by V. Fox-Strangeways the colonial District Officer in
charge of Okigwe in 1933 against the people of Isuikwuato. Using Roseline's sense of humility and hard work, the book provides new epistemological debates on the politics of knowledge production, historical traditions and intellectual decoloniality.
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UCHE UWAEZUOKE OKONKWO holds a PhD degree in History and
Strategic Studies from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He was appointed Associate Professor of History and Diplomatic Studies at the Federal University Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria and was later appointed Becker Freidman Visiting Senior Research Associate and Scholar in residence at Kelly Centre Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, USA. He was a Pre-Conference Guest Lecturer at the Centre for Africana Studies 2024 at Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is the author of over 20 books, 100 articles in journals and chapters in book and over 200 conference papers. Uche's research interest is in the field of Social and Imperial History, an area of study he had acquired expertise in teaching and research at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Uche have received travel grants and fellowships to many countries and Universities from esteemed organizations such as the United Nations Environment Programme, Spencer Foundation, Volvo Foundation, University of Bayeruth African Multiple Cluster, the Dutch Foundation for the History of Technology, the Society for the History of Technology in Africa (SHOT) and the University of Lagos Graduate Fellowship.
