Don C. Ohadike

Don Cukwudumebi Ohadike (1941 – 28 August 2005 He earned a doctorate in history from the University of Jos in 1984.

Career In 1977, Ohadike's career took off with his appointment as a lecturer at the School of Humanities, University of Port Harcourt. After completing his doctorate, he taught history and served as department chair at the University of Jos. He returned to the United States in 1987 with appointments as a visiting scholar at Northwestern University and Stanford University. He joined the Cornell University faculty in 1989. In 2001, he began a five-year appointment as the director of the Cornell Africana Studies and Research Center.

Partial bibliography Books The Ekumeku Movement: Western Igbo Resistance to the British Conquest of Nigeria, 1883–1914 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1991). Anioma: A Social History of the Western Igbo People (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994). Pan-African Culture of Resistance: A History of Liberation Movements in Africa and the Diaspora (Binghamton, NY: Global Publications, 2002). The Sacred Drums of Liberation: Religions and Music of Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora (Africa World Press, March 2007, published posthumously).

Chapters and articles "Diffusion and Physiological Responses to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 in Nigeria," Social Science and Medicine 32, no. 12 (1991): 1393-99. “Igbo Culture and History.” In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (New York: Anchor, 1994), xix–xlix.