About Me
Name: Francis Sidney Ibe MOGU
Sex: Male
Marital Status: Single
Day/Date of Birth: April 3, 1961.
Place: Ikom – OGOJA, Cross River State, Nigeria.
Nationality: Nigerian.
Profession: Academic (University Assistant Professor)
Residential Address: 42, Kwaluseni Circle, University of Swaziland,
Kwaluseni - Swaziland, Southern Africa.
Office Address: A.1.10, Dept. of English Language & Literature,
University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4,
Kwaluseni - Swaziland – Southern Africa.
Permanent Address: Mr. Simon Mogu’s Residence,
Ukpe Village, Nkum Community, OGOJA L.G.A.,
C/o Mrs. Helen M. Idam,
No. 4, Sarki Audu Street,
Off Mission Road,
Igoli – OGOJA – Cross River State, NIGERIA.
USA Address: Dr. Francis Ibe MOGU
C/o Rtd. USAF Major Paul Robert KRONST
10645 NE 132nd Place
Kirkland - Seattle, Washington State,
WA 98034-2034
United States of America.
Telephone: 011 268 518 4011 Ext. 2147 – Office
011 268 518 5276 – Fax
011 268 667 2237 – Cell
E-mail: francismogu@yahoo.com
Alternative E-mails: ibemogu@yahoo.com
frankristij@yahoo.co.uk
EDUCATIONAL AND SERVICE QUALIFICATIONS
1999: Ph.D. English (African-American Literature), University of
Lagos, Yaba – Lagos, Nigeria.
1990: M.A. English with Honors (African & African Diaspora Literature),
University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria - First Person from the
University of Calabar to graduate with a Master’s Degree within a
single academic year.
1988: National Youth Service Corps (N.Y.S.C.), University of Sokoto
(Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto), Sokoto State - Nigeria.
1987: B. A. with Honors (English & Literary Studies)
Second Class., Upper Division, University of Calabar.
1981: Higher School Certificate (Advanced Level),
Mary Knoll College, Okuku - Ogoja, Nigeria.
1979: West African School Certificate (Division Two),
Mary Knoll College, Okuku – Ogoja.
1974: First School Leaving Certificate (with Distinction),
St. Charles Primary School, Ukpe, Nkum, OGOJA,
Cross River State, NIGERIA.
POSITIONS HELD
1. Assistant Professor of English,
University of Swaziland, South Africa (2003 – to date).
2. Assistant Professor of English,
University of Calabar, Calabar - Nigeria.
3. Lecturer 1 (Assistant Professor),
University of Calabar, Calabar - Nigeria (2000-2003).
a. Chief Examinations Officer, Department of English and
Literary Studies (2000-2003)
b. Member, Senate Research Grants Committee, Faculty of
Arts, University of Calabar (2001-2003).
4. Assistant Lecturer – University of Calabar (1990 – 1998).
5. Teaching Assistant – University of Calabar (1989 – 1990)
6. Teaching Assistant – Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto
7. Teaching Assistant – University of Lagos (1994 – 1998).
8. Personnel Officer II – Cross River State Civil Service
Commission, Calabar (1988 – 1989).
a. Secretary to the Chairman at Board and General
Commission’s Meetings.
b. Assistant Head, Recruitment Section of the Commission.
c. Secretary to the Appointments and Promotions Board of the
Civil Service Commission.
9. Auxiliary Teacher – Nkum Iborr Secondary Commercial School,
Alladim, Nkum - OGOJA (1982 – 1983).
COURSES TAUGHT AND SERVICE AS SYUDENY’S ADVISOR.
A. Faculty of Humanities – Dept. of English Language & Literature, University of Swaziland, South Africa:
1. Historical Background of English Literature (ENG. 104)
2. Introduction to Critical Theory (ENG. 204)
3. Survey of English Literature (ENG. 205)
4. Modern Critical Theories (ENG. 304)
5. Advanced Studies in African Literature (ENG. 404)
B. Faculty of Arts – Department of English and Literary Studies,
University of Calabar, Calabar - Nigeria:
1. Survey of American Literature (ELS 4071) – 2002 - 2003
2. Caribbean Literature (ELS 3031) – 2002 - 2003
3. African-American Literature (ELS 3041)
4. African-American Literature (ELS 3042)
5. Advanced English Composition (ELS 2032) – 1999 - 2000
6. Use of English (GSS 1101) – 1989 - 2003
7. Use of English (GSS 1102) – 1989 - 2003
8. Remedial English (ELS 001) – 1999 - 2003
9. Remedial English (ELS 002) – 1999 - 2003
10. Diploma English (ELS 003) – 2001 - 2002
11. The African Novel (ELS 3011) – 1991 - 1993
12. English Composition (ELS 1011) – 1989 - 2003
13. English Composition (ELS 1012) – 1989 - 2003
14. Use of English (GSS1101) – 1989 -2003
15. Use of English (GSS1102) – 1989 - 2003
C. Faculty of Education Sandwich Program, University of Calabar:
1. African Prose (ELS 2011) – 1989 - 2003
2. African Novel (ELS 3011, 3012) – 1990 - 2003
3. Staff Advisor for third Year Students, (1991 – 1993)
4. Chief Examinations and Records Officer, Department of English
and Literary Studies (Oct. 2000 to 2003).
D. Teaching Assistant (and Doctoral Student): University of Lagos:
1. 1994 – 1995:
G.ST.* 105: Use of English 1
G.ST. 106: Use of English 2
2. 1995 – 1996:
G.ST. 105: Use of English 1 1
G.ST. 106: Use of English 2
3. 1996 – 1997:
G.ST. 105: Use of English 1
G.ST. 106: Use of English 2
4. 1997 – 1998:
G.ST. 105: Use of English 1
G.ST. 106: Use of English 2
*General Studies (G.ST.)
PART TIME ENDEAVOURS:
1. English Language Instructor - Embassy of South Korea in Nigeria,
Idejo Street, Victoria Island – Lagos (1996-1999).
2. English Language Instructor – Graduate Management Admission
Test Preparatory Classes, Brilliant Ideas Ltd., University of Lagos
Center (1995-1999).
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
SOURCE TEXTS BOOKS
1. Black Male Writing and Black Female Responses in the United States by Francis Ibe Mogu (Calabar: Centaur
Press, 2002).
2. The Novel as a Tool for Self Assertion: A Comparison of Selected Works of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Samuel Selvon and
Ralph Ellison by Francis Ibe Mogu (Calabar: Centaur Press, 2002).
3. Literature in English Studies 1V: Advanced Studies in African Literature by Lekan Oyegoke and Francis Mogu
(Kwaluseni: Institute of Distance Education, University of Swaziland, 2004).
4. Introduction to Critical Theory 1: From Plato to Modern Times by Lekan Oyegoke and Francis Mogu (Kwaluseni:
Institute of Distance Education, 2006).
CRITICAL JOURNAL ESSAYS
1. “Dialogue and Outrage in the Literature of the African Diaspora: Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter,
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Richard Wright’s Black Boy,” in Lwati: A Journal Of Contemporary
Research, Vol. 3, June 2006 (Pp.98-108), Kwaluseni: Lwati Swaziland, 2006, (ISSN 1813-2227).
2. “The Relevance of Chinua Achebe, Langston Hughes and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to the African Renaissance,” for the
3rd University of Botswana International Conference on Language & Literature, Gaborone – Botswana, June 2005, in
The Study and Use of English in Africa – Chapter 16 (London: CSP publishers, 2006).
3. “Gender as a Sign-Post to Identity: Feminist Impulse in Lucy Dlamini’s The Amaryllis and Sembene Ousmane’s
God’s Bits of Wood,” in The African Literature Journal (Enugu: Nigeria: Chin-Ce Press, 2005).
4. “The Conflict of the West and the Centre in Chukwuemeka Ike’s The Bottled Leopard,” in Lwati: A Journal of
Contemporary Research, Vol. 1, No.1, Pp.14-19, Manzini – Swaziland: TTI Publishing /Contemporary theory Group, June
2004.
5. “Democracy and Ethno-Racism: Citizens under Bondage in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Timothy Aluko’s
Wrong Ones in The Dock.” For the 9th Annual American Studies Association of Nigeria Conference, Pyramid Hotel,
Calabar, July 2002 (Ife: Anchor Press 2003).
6. “Beyond the Igbo Cosmos: Achebe’s Things Fall Apart as a Cross-Cultural Novel,” in Isi Nka: The Artistic Purpose
– Chinua Achebe and the Theory of African Literature: A Millennium Text (Chapter Four). Trenton, N.J.: Africa World
Press, Inc., 2002.
7. “The Nigerian Response to American Democracy: A Review of Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People, Anthills of
the Savannah and Richard Wright’s Native Son and Black Bo,” in the American Studies Association of Nigeria Journal.
Ibadan: Hope Publications Ltd., 2002, (ISBN 978-35981-9-8).
8. “Religion as a Vehicle for Cultural Cohesion: Zaynab Alkali’s The Virtuous Woman, The Still Born and James
Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain,” in the American Studies Association of Nigeria Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2, Ibadan: 2002.
9. “Corruption as a Repellent of Democracy: Achebe as the Conscience of the Nigerian Nation,” in Twentieth
Century Major African Authors, ed. Ernest Emenyonu. New York: Africa World Press, 2002.
10. “The African Response to American Feminism – A Reading of Flora Nwapa and Alice Walker,” in Black Women
Writers Across Cultures, Chapter Five, pp. 89 – 120, ed. Valentine James & James S. Etim, Baltimore, MD.: International
Scholars Pub., 2001.
11. “The Struggle for Conclusion in the Scheme of Things: Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun, James Baldwin’s Blues
for Mister Charlie and Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun,” in The Empowerment of the Civil Society in a
Democracy: Nigeria and the United States, ed. Oyin Ogunba. Ife: Anchor Print Ltd., 2000.
12. “Womanism as an Antidote to the Problem of Representation of Female Characters in Works of Black Male
Writers,” in Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 1 No. 1, ed. Joseph Yakubu and Patrick Oloko (pp. 69 – 86), Ago-Iwoye:
Ogun State University, 1999.
BOOK REVIEWS
1. Daughters of Hauwa by Mujidah T. A. A. Olaifa. Lagos: Malt-house Press, 1999 (Review Published in “The
Guardian” Newspaper (Nigeria), Monday, May 10 1999, Lagos, Page 69.)
2. Basic English for Higher Education (Part one): Structure and Composition by Richard Agbo Awubi. Calabar:
University of Calabar Press, 1998.
3. The Amaryllis by Lucy Z. Dlamini. Manzini-Swaziland: MacMillan Boleswa Publishers Ltd., 2001.
OTHER RESEARCHES AWAITING PUBLICATION:
1. “Literary Models for National Enlightenment: Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter and Zaynab Alkali’s The
Virtuous Woman,” for the International Reading Association 4th Pan-African Reading for All Conference, Ezulwini –
Swaziland, August 2005.
2. “Unfettered Expression and Human Dignity: Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter, The Big Sea and Chinua
Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah,” for the 10th Annual A.S.AN. (American Studies Association of Nigeria) Conference,
Abuja – Nigeria, June 2003.
3. “Religion as a Negative and Non Sustaining Weapon in James Baldwin’s Just Above My Head and Richard Wright’
s Black Boy” (1992).
4. “Literature and Revolution: A Study of Sembene Ousmane’s God’s Bits of Wood” (1991).
5. “French Assimilation and the African: A Study of Ferdinand Oyono’s Houseboy and The Old Man and the Medal”
(1990).
6. “The Muse’s Ruminations – A Collection of Poems” (1986-1990).
7. “The Theme of Rootlessness in Four Works by Two South African Novelists – Peter Abrahams and Alex La Guma”
(B. A. Research / Graduating Project 1987, University of Calabar.)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AS PARTICIPANT IN WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES:
1. Participant in the University of Swaziland Institute of Distance Education Residential Writers Workshop, Orion
Hotel, Piggs Peak, Swaziland, June 26 – July 1, 2006.
2. Participant at the International Reading Association 4th Pan-African Reading for all Conference, Royal Swazi
Convention Center, Ezulwini – Swaziland, July 21-26, 2005.
3. Participant at the 3rd International Conference on Language & Literature, University of Botswana, Gaborone -
Botswana, June 12-18, 2005.
4. Participant in the University of Swaziland Institute of Distance Education Residential Writers Workshop, Orion
Hotel, Piggs Peak, Swaziland, June 20 – 26, 2004.
5. Sole Participant from the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the Twentieth American Studies Colloqiuim, Goree
Institute, Dakar-Senegal, May 3-7, 2003.
6. University of Calabar International Conference on African Literature and the English Language (ICALEL) 1989,
1990, 1991, 1992, 2002.
7. West African Association of Commonwealth Literatures and Languages (WAACLALS) – 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992.
8. Faculty of Arts Seminar Series, University of Calabar – Regular participant.
9. American Studies Association of Nigeria (A.S.A.N.) Annual Conference and Workshops in the following places:
a. 2003 – ASAN Conference, Abuja, June 2003
b. 2002 – Pyramid Hotel, Calabar
c. 2001 – Plateau Hotel, Jos.
d. 2000 – Precious Palm Royal Hotel, Benin City.
e. 1999 – Whispering Palms Resort, Iworo – Badagry, Lagos.
f. 1996 – University of Ibadan International Conference Centre (Subsequently aborted by the Abacha Military Regime)
g. 1995 – University of Lagos Guest Houses
10. British Council Seminar on Women Writers in the British Wealth, National Theatre, Iganmu – Lagos (July 1999).
PROFESSIONAL HONOURS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS:
1. Distinguished Member, Board of Advisors, American Biographical Institute, Bur Oaks Circle, North Carolina (2000-
2003).
2. Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Grantee (1996 – 1999).
3. Research Fellow / Teaching Assistant, University of Lagos (1994 – 1998).
4. University of Calabar Research Fellowship for the Ph.D. Research (1993 – 1998).
5. University of Calabar Research Award for the M.A. Research (1989 – 1990).
COMMUNITY SERVICE
1. Editor, Lwati: Journal of Humanities, University of Swaziland,
Kwaluseni – Swaziland, 2004 – to date
2. Secretary, Roman Catholic Community, University of Swaziland,
Kwaluseni, 2003 - 2005.
3. National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria (Sokoto State), 1987 – 1988:
a. Taught at: 1. Govt. Day Secondary School, Talata – Mafara.
2. University of Sokoto, Sokoto.
b. Edited: The University of Sokoto Journal of Studies in Humanities
c. Participated in: The NYSC Reforestation Program, planting trees
in the Sokoto area
CONSULTANCIES
1. University of Calabar (UNICAL) Consult:
a. Diploma in English
b. Remedial English Teaching
2. Centre for General Studies: UNICAL
Use of English Language Teaching
3. Faculty of Education, Sandwich Program during semester breaks, UNICAL
MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
1 Chairman, American Studies Association of Nigeria (A.S.A.N), University of Calabar Chapter (2000 – 2003)
2 Member, Board of Advisors, American Biographical Institute, Bur Oaks Circle, North Carolina (2002-2003)
3 Member, Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Cross River State Chapter (2001-2003)
4 Member, Faculty of Arts Senate Research Grants Committee, University of Calabar (2002-2003)
5 Member, International Conference on African Literature and the English Language (ICALEL) University of Calabar,
Nigeria.
6 Member, West African Association of Commonwealth Literatures and Languages Study (WAACLALS)
OTHER PREVIOUS RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Welfare Secretary, Henry Carr Postgraduate Hall, University of Lagos, Yaba, Lagos (1996-1998).
2. Secretary, Electoral Committee, Postgraduate Students Association, University of Lagos, Akoka-Yaba, Lagos
(1997).
3. Member, National Union of Campus Journalists, University of Calabar (1983 – 1987).
4. Secretary to the Accounts Officer (Financial Secretary), Students’ Union Government, University of Calabar (1985
– 1986).
5. Secretary and Librarian, Current Affairs Organisation, University of Calabar (1986 – 1987).
6. President, Caretaker Government, English and Literary Students Association, University of Calabar (1984 – 1985).
HOBBIES
Reading widely, writing, Bible study, visiting and caring for the sick, watching television, listening to the radio, taking
photographs, watching football (soccer), basketball and athletics.