THROWBACKTHISDAY, JAN 18; Is Emeka Anyaoku's Birthday

                                 

Chief Emeka Anyaoku, GCVO, CFR, CON (born 18 January 1933) is a Nigerian politician of Igbo descent. He was the third Commonwealth Secretary-General.

Born in Obosi, Anyaoku was educated at Merchants of Light School, Oba,and attended the University College of Ibadan, then a college of the University of London, from which he obtained an honours degree in Classics as a College Scholar. Aside from his international career, Chief Anyaoku continues to fulfill the duties of his office as Ichie Adazie of Obosi, a traditional Ndichie chieftainship.

Eleazar Chukwuemeka [Emeka] Anyaoku was born to Emmanuel and Cecilia Anyaoku in Obosi, then a very large village in the Eastern part of Nigeria. Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Anyaoku had been educated to the middle school level after his primary education at the CMS school in Onitsha under the guardianship of Reverend William Blackett a Christian Missionary. After his education he worked first with the railways and later in the hospital in Kaduna in the Northern part of Nigeria before becoming a catechist. After serving for a number of years, he went back to his village to farm. He became Ononukpo (Head) of Okpuno Ire, a quarter in Ire, the largest village in Obosi.

Cecilia, née Adiba Ogbogu, was married as second wife by Emmanuel when he returned from Kaduna after following the death of his first wife. Cecilia hailed from a family in Ugamuma quarter of Obosi. She grew up at the home of Rev. Ekpunobi, her guardian, who was the first Obosi citizen to be ordained as an Anglican Priest. He was regarded as one of the most enlightened and educated in the community then. Cecilia stayed with the Ekpunobi family as a ward. Rev. Ekpunobi, on learning of the death of Emmanuel’s wife, invited him to his home and subsequently convinced Emmanuel and Adiba to marry each other. Their first child, a girl, did not survive. Thereafter, Emeka was born and he has five siblings.

 

THROWBACKTHISDAY; makes it 83 years and TBT Blog celebrates with him. HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHIEF EMEKA ANYAOKU !!!!