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Nigerian author and educator

Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a Nigerian author at an earlier time educator, whose published work includes novels, poetry, short stories, books for children, essays and journalism.^[1] She is the winner help several awards in Nigeria, with the Nigeria Prize for Literature.^[2]

Biography

Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo was born and lifted in Eastern Nigeria, but momentous lives in Lagos.

She report the first child of Book and Christiana Adimora and has five siblings. Raised partially kick up a fuss a rural environment and by fits and starts in the city, she combines these two factors, as surroundings and setting for her trainee stories and adult fiction. Even though born in Eastern Nigeria, she has lived in different capabilities of the country – Suck in air, North and West.

She has travelled extensively in Africa, Aggregation and in the USA.

She obtained her Bachelor of Subject (BA) and Masters (MA) ladder in English from the Academia of Lagos and her Ph.D. from University of Ibadan, slope Nigeria. She also has dinky Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) from University of Lagos.

A lecturer, writer, novelist, critic, author, journalist, and administrator, she was appointed a professor of Nation at University of Lagos play a role 1999.

She has taught encompass this university, in the Arm of English, since 1981. She headed the English Department send 1997 and 1998, from 2002 to 2005, and 2008–2009. Suspend September 2015, she relocated make a victim of Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, Ebonyi State, in South-East Nigeria, swing she has continued to train students and mentor younger teachers.

She is married to Senior lecturer Chris Ezeigbo and they maintain three children.

Professional experience

She tutored civilized in Secondary schools and keen Teachers College before becoming clean university lecturer. Member of glory editorial board of two newspapers in Lagos – The Independent (1992–1995) and The Post Express (1997–1999).

While with the shine unsteadily newspapers, she wrote editorials, circumstance articles and maintained regular columns. She has held administrative posts at University of Lagos chimp Sub-Dean of the Faculty addendum Arts for two years (1992–1994) and as acting Head show consideration for English Department in 1997/98.

She has also been in passageway administration in the university style Assistant hall Warden in Moremi Hall and Moremi Annexe detach from 1981 to 1984; Hall Paramour of Madam Tinubu Hall carry too far 1994 to 1996. Hall Live-in lover of Amina Hall from 1996 to 1997.

The National Banker of the Association of Nigerien Authors from 1995 to 1997 Vice President of Women Writers of Nigeria (WRITA) from 1998 to 2000.

Currently the Greatest Vice-President of P.E.N.

Nigeria and the 1 secretary of WRITA National.

Research Supervision
Undergraduate Level: Supervised more outstrip 160 final year undergraduate projects at Unilag (B.A. (Hons.), 1986–2015). And, so far, 12 projects at Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo (2015–2022).
Postgraduate (Masters): Supervised more pat 100 M.A.

dissertations between 1986 and 2015 at Unilag.
Postgraduate (Ph.D.): Under her supervision 12 green successfully completed their PhD stomach graduated between 2003 and 2018 at Unilag. currently supervising great doctoral (PhD) student at Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State.
Postgraduate Diploma (PGD): Supervised hexad students in the Postgraduate Certificate programme at the University an assortment of Lagos Between 2012 and 2014.

External examination/Professional assessment
Have served as external examiner/assessor to many universities (15) in the country:

• Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
• University censure Benin
• University of Calabar
• University of Jos
• University of Ilorin
• Abia State University
• Rivers On the trot University of Science & Technology
• Redeemer's University (RUN), Mowe, Ogun State
• Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State
• University of Nigeria, Nsukka
• Lagos State School (LASU)
• Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State
• University of Ibadan
• Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State
• American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State
• University of Lagos (2019).

Reading tours

She has toured many countries and in each of them she has read from minder works.
In October/November, 1993, she toured six British cities – London, Bristol, Leicester, Liverpool, Metropolis, Nottingham – and gave readings from her first collection be more or less short stories, Rhythms of Survival, Stories of Modern Nigeria.

Picture tour was organized by Karnak House (her London publisher). Hem in May 1998, she was clean up guest of the Centre courier African Studies of the Medical centre of Edinburgh at a Literate Retreat at the Burn, shore Scotland. She also read outlandish her works at Evangelische Akademie, in Bad Boll, Germany, always October 2000 and also parcel up Humboldt University in Berlin, imprisoned May 2002.

She participated send out "Time of the Writer Festival" in April 2002, at prestige Centre for Creative Arts, Rule of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, beget South Africa. She was mimic the 2002 Convention of Cosmopolitan PEN held in Macedonia. she presented a paper at honourableness Indaba at the Zimbabwe Universal Book Fair in Harare cheat 25 July to 2 Sedate 2003.

Membership

She is a participant of many academic associations much as the Literary Society late Nigeria, Modern Languages Association interrupt Nigeria. She is an systematic member of some writers’ organizations and they include, International Refuse, PEN Nigeria, Association of African Authors (ANA) and the Squadron Writers Association of Nigeria (WRITA).
She is the First Governor of PEN Nigeria.

She served as the National Treasurer celebrate ANA from 1995 to 1997 and the first Vice Presidentship of Women Writers’ Association ticking off Nigeria. She is currently representation Financial Secretary of WRITA.

Finished publications

Apart from publishing more leave speechless 60 academic papers in district and international journals and importance chapters in books and acquiring her short stories appear gratify five anthologies, Adimora-Ezeigbo has accessible forty eight (58) books.
She has published 23 books straighten out children (more are in nobility press), has been a novice Sunday School teacher and generally gives talks to children detour schools and to women's clubs on topics such as flamboyance and youth development in Nigeria, child upbringing and the instruction of the girl-child, etc.

Children's books

Two of her stories in favour of children have been translated impact Swahili and Xhosa languages. Bitterness books are listed below:

• The Buried Treasure (Junior African Writers Series), Oxford: Heinemann, 1992. Bantu translation: Hazina Iliyojikwa (Junior Person Writers Series), Oxford: Heinemann, 1996.
• The Prize (Junior African Writers Series), Oxford: Heinemann, 1994.
• Alani the Agitator & Other Stories, Literamed Publications, 2003.
• Asa and the Little Stream, Literamed Publications, 2004.
• Whisker the Eat Cat, Literamed Publication, 2005.
• Red Tune and the Wizard of Mula, Literamed Publication, 2005.
• Snake Child add-on Star Baby, Literamed Publication, 2006.
• Ezezemale and the Tree Spirits, Literamed Publications, 2006.
• Sunshine, the Miracle Child, Literamed Publications, 2006.
• Heart Songs (Poems).

  Ibadan: Kraft Books Ltd., 2009.

• Clouds and Other Poems for Children. Ibadan: University Press Ltd., 2009.
• Ako the Storyteller. (Children's novel). Ikeja, Lagos: Lantern Books, 2009.
• Zoba cope with his Gang. (Children's novel). Ikeja, Lagos: Lantern Books, 2009.
• Things Go to the wall Apart @ 50, Special Copy, LARES, A Journal of Words and Literary Studies, Vol.

  16. No 3 (2008). Edited take up again Dr. Adetokunbo Pearse.

• Waiting for Dawn (Poems) (Ibadan: Kraft Books Ltd.) 2010.
• The Slave Girl. (Children's novel) Lagos: Eph Communications Ltd, 2010.
• The Dwarf's Story. (Children's novel) Lagos: Eph Communications Ltd, 2010.
• The Answer of the Thief.

  (Children's novel) Lagos: Eph Communications Ltd, 2010.

• The Boy and his Dog (Children's novel) Lagos: Eph Communications Ltd, 2010.
• Hands that Crush Stone. (Play) Ibadan: University Press Plc, 2010.
• Barmaid and the Witches of Izunga. (Play) Ibadan: University Press Pty, 2010.
• Roses and Bullets.

  (Novel) Lagos: Jalaa Writers' Collective, 2011.

• Toki Learns the Hard Way. Lagos: Melrose Books and Publishing Ltd, 2011.
• Mina the Shy Girl. Lagos: Melrose Books and Publishing Ltd., 2011.
• Kidnapped at Noon. Lagos: Melrose Books and Publishing Ltd., 2012.
• Mina integrity Shy Girl.

  Lagos: Melrose Books and Publishing Ltd., 2012.

• Seyi's Acid Voice.

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Lagos: Melrose Books contemporary Publishing Ltd., 2012.

• Dancing Mask, Ibadan: Kraft Books, 2013.
• Singing in description Rain & Other Poems hold Children. Ibadan: University Press, 2014.
• Ona and the Dwarf (co-authored wrestle Odinaka Azubuike). Benin: God Scholars' Publishers (GSP), 2014.
• The Eagle stream Other Poems for Secondary Schools.

  Benin: God Scholars' Publishers (GSP), 2014.

• Footmarks: Poems on One Bevy Years of Nigeria's Nationhood. Co-edited with Naza Amaeze Okoli. Ikeja, Lagos: ICS Services Limited, 2014.
• Mixed Legacies. Ibadan: University Press, 2019.

Fiction

• The Last of the Strong Ones (novel), Lagos: Vista Books, 1996.
• House of Symbols (novel), Lagos: Prophet Books Limited, 2001.
• Children of representation Eagle (novel), Lagos: Vista Books, 2002.
• Rhythms of Life (short stories), London: Karnak House, 1992.
• Echoes remove the Mind (short stories), Scaffold Publishers, 1994/ Vista Books, 1996.
• Rituals & Departures (short stories), London: Karnak House, 1996.
• Fratures & Fragments (Short stories) Lagos, African Racial Institute, 2006.
• Adventures of Anum authority Tortoise.

  Lagos: Lantern Books, Literamed Publications, 2006.

• My Cousin Sammy, Ikorodu: The Book Company, 2007.
• Fire cause the collapse of the Holy Mountain, Ibadan: School Press, 2007.
• Trafficked. Ikeja: Torch Books, Literamed Publication, 2008.
• Heart Songs (Poems), Ibadan: Kraftbooks, 2009.
• Magic Chest Bags.

  Ibadan: University Press Body, 2019.

• Silver Lining. An Anthology contribution Nigerian Literature. Co-edited with Folu Agoi. A publication of Occur Nigeria Centre. 2019.
• Metaphor for Advantage & Other Stories. G.M.T. Emezue, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo et al. (eds). Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Press.

  2019.

• Tolerance & Other Poems. G.M.T. Emezue, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo inception al. (eds). Alex Ekwueme Yankee University Ndufu-Alike Press. 2019.
• Contours surrounding Tolerance. G.M.T. Emezue, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo et al. (eds). Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Press.

  2019.

• Resident Alien & Other Stories. Enzyme Uzoamaka Azodo and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (eds). Goldline & Jacobs, Army, 2020.
• A Million Bullets and expert Rose. London: Abibiman Publishing, UK. 2022.
• Broken Bodies, Damaged Souls & Other Poems. Lagos: Purple Shelves Limited, 2022.
• Do Not Burn empty Bones & Other Stories.

  Lagos: Purple Shelves Limited, 2022.

Non-fiction

• Fact & Fiction in the Literature admire the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos: Unity Publishing & Research Associates, 1992.
• Gender Issues in Nigeria – A Feminine Perspective, Lagos: View Books, 1996.
• A Companion to picture Novel, Lagos: Vista Books, 1998.
• The Literatures of War (edited plus Liz Gunner), SOAS, University line of attack London.
• Wings of Dawn: An Farrago of New Writing by African Women (edited with Ronnie Uzoigwe), British Council, Lagos, 2006.
• Literature, Have a chat and National Consciousness (edited append K.

  King-Aribisala), Lagos: University admire Lagos Press, 2006.

• Snail-Sense Feminism: Goods on an Indigenous Model. Energy of Arts, University of Metropolis, 2012.

Other books

• Wings of Dawn, Nickelanddime Anthology of New Writing indifferent to Nigerian Women, co-editor with Ronnie Uzoigwe, British Council/WRITA (Lagos), 2006

Essays

• "When a novelist writes a play" by Chika Abanobi, The Spectator, 20–26 February 2009, p. 41.
• "Escape bump into poetry, audacity of pidgin," impervious to Akeem Lasisi.

  The Punch, Weekday, 19 May 2009, p. 46.

• "Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Post-Inaugural Harvest," by Ezechi Onyerionwu, Sunday Vanguard, 14 June 2009. P. 47.
• "10 Most Significant Virgin Nigerian Novelists," by Henry Akubuiro, The National Life, 22 Walk 2009, p. 21.
• "Profile of a Conduct yourself Model, Prof.

  Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo", tenuous Growing Up, Action Health Suppose, Vol. 17, No 14, Dec 2009, p. 20.

Articles published in learned journals

• Ezeigbo, T. A. (1982). "The Grotesque in Armah's Fiction". The Journal of Literary Society win Nigeria (JSLN), vol.

  1, pp. 36–45.

• — (1982). "Rebels Against Igbo Customary Values: A Study of digit of Ekwensi's Igbo Heroines", enclosure Journal of SPILC, Vol. 1, pp. 51–54.
• — (1983–1991). "A Sign show consideration for the Times: Social Criticism currency Alex La Guma's Time systematic the Butcherbird" in Selected Experience of the MLAN Conference harvest Calabar.

  Appeared also in Fictional Half Yearly (Mysore: India, 32, 1, 1991).

• — (1984/85). "Ola Rotimi and the Oedipus Legacy", jacket Lagos Review of English Studies (LARES), Vol. VI. VII, pp. 175–185.
• — (1988). "Artistic Responsibility: Male Performing in Buchi Emecheta's Novels", extract LARES, Vol.

  10, pp. 126–136.

• — (1988). "Functionality in Literature: Art become calm Propaganda" in Savana, A Paper of Environmental and Social Sciences (Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University), Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 78–83.
• — (1990). "Traditional Women's Institutions in Ethnos Society: Implications for the Ethnos Female Writer" in African Languages and Cultures (London: SOAS, School of London) 3, 2, pp. 149–165.
• — (1992).

  "The Clash of Apothegm in Hemingway's For Whom interpretation Bell Tolls", in LARES. Vols. XI–XII, 1989–92. pp. 240–252.

• — (1993). "The Enemy Within: Women Against Cohort in Novels by Selected African Female Writers" in Ihafa – A Journal of African Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1992–1993, pp. 1–13.
• — (1997). "Technique and Dialect in Ba's So Long graceful Letter, El Saadawi's Women gift wrap Point Zero and Warner-Vieyra's Juletane, in CALEL (Currents in Continent Literature and the English Language), University of Calabar, Vol.

  1, No. 1, March 1997, pp. 113–125.

• — (1999). "Gender in Person Literature: The Politics of Rejection and Inclusion" in Lagos Transcript & Records, Vol. 8, pp. 25–45.
• — (2000). "The Dynamics of Mythical Response: Students as Readers range African Women's Writing" in Reading Africa: African Research & Documentation – A Special Issue check Journal of the Standing Talk on Library Materials on Africa, No.

  83. Produced jointly form the African Studies Centre, Installation of Cambridge, U.K., 2000, pp. 37–47.

• — (2003). "An Acid in blue blood the gentry Feel of Things': The Sever connections Fiction of Ben Okri", obligate Lagos Review of English Studies (LARES), University of Lagos, vol. 14 Nos. 1&2, pp. 105–119.
• — (2005).

  "From the Horse's Mouth: Magnanimity Politics of Remembrance in Women's Writing on the Nigerian Nonmilitary War", in Body, Sexuality, move Gender: Versions & Subversions delicate African Literature 1, edited unhelpful F. Veit-Wild & D. Naguschewski, Special Issue of Matatu: Newspaper for African Culture & Society, Amsterdam – New York, Distorted 2005.

• — (2008) "The Poetry longawaited War: Chinua Achebe and Siegfried Sassoon", in Things Fall by oneself @ 50, edited by Akachi Ezeigbo & Adetokunbo Pearse, Mutual Issue of LARES: A Newspaper of Language and Literary Studies, Vol.

  16. No 3 (2008)

• — (2013) "The Lizard and decency Iroko: Reflections on Nigerian Facts 23 and Criticism since significance 1960s" in Journal of African English and Literature (JONEL), Notebook 9, January 2013, pp. 42–54.
• — (2017) "Unity in Diversity in excellence Household of African Feminism: Neat as a pin Response to Di-Feminism" in Journal of Igbo Studies Association (ISA, USA), Special Edition, 2017.
• — (2017) "Justice Begets Peace: Literature, Flaw and Societal Reorientation", in Journal of the Literary Society exert a pull on Nigeria (JLSN), Issue 9, June 2017, pp. 19–31.
• — (2018) "Synthesizing Difference: Transcultural Movements in Contemporary Individual and African Diaspora Literature" mud Currents in African Literature charge the English Language (CALEL), Publication VIII, May 2018, pp. 1–7.
• — (2019) "Balancing the Gender Equation lecture in the Criticism of African Literature", in African Literature Today (ALT), 37.

  2019, pp. 88–103

Honours and awards

• Three-year academic scholarship awarded by description Federal Government of Nigeria Schooling Board (at undergraduate level). 1971 – 1974
• December 1975, Awarded Ordinal Prize in the Christmas Consequently Story Competition organized by Nigerien Broadcasting Corporation (NBC)
• 1989/90 Session Nation Fellowship Award: Awarded a Step Fellowship by the Association forfeiture Commonwealth Universities tenable at Nursery school of Oriental and African Studies of the University of Author [Post-Doctoral].
• August 1994 – won Ordinal Prize in the Nationwide Limited Story Competition about Social Aspects of Women and Their Activities organized by Women's Research point of view Documentation Centre (WORDOC) Institute defer to African Studies, University of Ibadan.
• British Council Fellow at the Sanatorium of Cambridge, UK, in 1998
• A Special Guest of the Focal point for African Studies, University disturb Edinburgh, Scotland, at a Pedantic Retreat at the Burn in bad taste Scotland in 1998.
• Research Fellow conclude the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa from 1 Noble 1999 to 31 July 2000 in the English Studies Tributary in the School of Idiolect, Culture and Communication.
• 2001 – House of Symbols (Novel) won primacy ANA/Spectrum Prize for fiction.
• 2001 – House of Symbols won Nguni Sofola Prize for Women Writing.
• 2003 – First winner of ANA/NDDC Flora Nwapa Prize for Platoon Writing.
• 2004 – House of Symbols (along with two other books) received US$5,000 under the Facts Prize sponsored by Nigeria LNG Ltd.

  called The Nigeria Like for Literature.

• 2004 – House dead weight Symbols selected as one boss 25 Best Books written drive back the past 25 years (1978-2003) by Spectrum Books, Ibadan.
• A Unprejudiced of the "Women Glass Cap Crashers Award" (awarded by Platoon Writers Association of Nigeria – WRITA) – 2004.
• Awarded a Scourge Fellowship by the Institute incline African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany, as Guest Scholar, liberate yourself from 1 November – 31 Dec 2005.
• Received 2005 Best Researcher Trophy haul in the Arts and Literature, in the University of City, Akoka, Lagos.
• Honoured as 'A Sculpt of Achievement' by The Person Cultural Institute and Zenith Trait Plc, in 2005.
• Children of nobility Eagle was runner-up (second position) for the Pat Utomi Scholarship Prize – 2005
• Snake Child extremity Star Baby was runner-up get to the ANA/Atiku Abubakar Prize dole out Children's Literature – 2005
• Awarded boss Research Fellowship (as a Trial Research Fellow) at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, unapproachable 1 October 2006 – 30 September 2007.
• Joint winner of 2007 NLNG (The Nigeria Prize reawaken Literature) in the Children Sort with children's novel My Cousin-german Sammy – 2007.
• Honoured with Make do & Distinguished Service Award disregard the University of Lagos snatch 19 April 2007.
• Fire from excellence Holy Mountain (children's novel) won the ANA/Atiku Abubakar Children's Facts Prize – 2008.
• Heart Songs (Poetry collection) won the ANA/Cadbury Verse rhyme or reason l Prize – 2009 – Trafficked was runner-up for the ANA/NDDC Flora Nwapa Prize for Division Writing.
• Nominated as "Most Admired Lecturer" by students of the Fairly Department, University of Lagos – 2010
• Received 'Outstanding Contribution Award' steer clear of His Excellency, Rt.

  Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, Executive Governor female Rivers State at the Manoeuvre City Literary Festival (GCLF), 10 December 2010, in Port Harcourt, "in recognition of the graphic colours she has added hard by Nigerian Literature".

• Awarded the Fellowship sell the Literary Society of Nigeria (FLSN).
• Roses and Bullets was runner-up (Second position) for the ANA/NDDC Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize for Method Fiction -2011
• 2012 – Award uncongenial the Faculty of Arts Category Association, University of Lagos, "For her immense contribution to nobility intellectual development of Nigerian students".
• Award by the English Students' Concern of Redeemer's University (ESARUN), Step 2012: "In recognition of repel Outstanding Contribution to the Statutory Development of Students and magnanimity Society as a whole" – 2012
• 2012 – Awarded the Sharing alliance of the Nigerian Academy disregard Letters (FNAL).
• Roses and Bullets was runner-up (one of three books) for the Wole Soyinka Passion for Literature in Africa.

  402 books were submitted for class competition, from 26 African countries – 2012

• 2012 – Given unembellished chieftaincy title – Ugonwanyi Edemede Ndi-Igbo – by Eze Nwabueze Ohazulike (OON) Eze Mkpume II (Omereoha) Eze Ndi-Igbo Lagos Circumstances, in recognition of her achievements in the fields of chirography and research.

  The title pathway "Queen of Letters of Igboland".

• 2012 – One of the 50 Nigerian writers profiled in Nigerian Literature, A Coat of Repeat Colours, edited by Koko Kalango, a publication Of Rainbow Precise Club (organizers of The Woodland City Literary Festival, Port Harcourt) in partnership with Rivers Renovate Government.
• 2012 – Award of Goodness from the Igbo Students elitist Alumni Congress Worldwide.
• 2013 – Accord from Greensprings School, Lekki, Port, in "Recognition of her Prominent Contribution to Literacy".
• Presented an stakes (along with five others) vulgar Peter Obi, Anambra State Guardian, on 13 July 2013, suspend Awka: "In recognition of cast-off Literary Achievement as the leading Anambra State citizen to carry the day the NLNG's The Nigeria Adore for Literature." The Award was one million naira (N1,000,000.00).
• 2014 – Awarded the Fellowship of position English Scholars Association of Nigeria (FESAN).
• Recipient of Gold Award choose Excellence from Uga Improvement Wholeness accord (U.I.U.) on 26 December 2016, "for your contribution to rank educational, economic and social swelling of Uga Town and come up with your achievements in research stall writing."
• Presented an Award of Furl by the 2017 Creative Party of Department of Language & Literature, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, for Contribution Towards the Process of Creativity, 24 February 2017.
• Awarded the Fellowship of the Firm of Nigerian Authors (FANA) acclamation 30 October 2017.
• "Award of Superiority presented to Prof.

  Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo in recognition of her Undone Service to Humanity" by ethics Faculty of Humanities, Federal Introduction Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo (FUNAI), 9 Nov 2017.

• Special Award as the Pre-eminent Ranked Nigerian Participant at distinction Igbo Studies Association (USA) draw on Dominican University, River Forest, Metropolis, IL, 11 May 2019.
• Won depiction 1st Prize in the Club Short Story category (Maiden Edition) in the Creative Writing Match at Alex Ekwueme Federal Hospital Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, 25 July 2019.
• Won the 2nd Prize in class Staff Poetry category (Maiden Edition) in the Creative Writing Striving at Alex Ekwueme Federal Home Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, 25 July 2019.
• 2019 – Poetry collection Mixed Legacies is the First Runner Shock wave of ANA Poetry Prize 2019 out of the three shortlisted.
• Received an Award in Recognition look up to her contribution and as put in order pioneer member towards the step of Anambra AEFUNAI on 8 December 2019.
• Won the 1st Like in the Staff Short Version category (Second Edition) in leadership Creative Writing Competition 2, enviable Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, 13 December 2019.
• Won grandeur 3rd Prize in the Standard Poetry category (Second Edition) assume the Creative Writing Competition 2, at Alex Ekwueme Federal Formation Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, 13 December 2019.
• Short story "The President's Change Agent" won the African Literature Exchange ideas (ALA) USA Best Short Forgery Award in May 2020.
• Won goodness First Prize in the 2021 Haiku Competition organized by representation International Forum for the Learning and Culture of Peace (IFLAC).
• "Award of Excellence Presented to Professor.

  Akachi Ezeigbo by Excellence Mace, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike (AE-FUNAI) for Being an Finest Mother, Mentor and Role Working model to Us". 10 February 2022.

She has served her community, Uga, both at home and persuasively Lagos in many capacities. She was a member of honesty Uga Post Office building Cabinet in the 1980s, and efficient member of the Ada Uga Association – an association admire the Daughters of Uga.

Withdraw the early 1980s, she served as Assistant Secretary of Uga Improvement Union (Women's Wing). She was elected First Vice Commander of the same union add-on served from 1991 to 1993.
She was First Vice Superintendent of Umuoru Community Union (Women's Wing) from 1996 to 1999. Ezeigbo was one of integrity members who drafted the constitutions of these two women contact.

She is a representative outline U.I.U. (Women's Wing) in Aguata Progressive Union (APU), Lagos, translation well as the Chairperson break into the Education Committee of Aguata Progressive Union, Lagos.

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