Ojike, Mazi Mbonu, 1914-1956

found: African American Studies Center, accessed March 5, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Ojike, Mbonu; political figure, pan-africanist; born 1914 in Arondizuogu, Nigeria; attended the Church Missionary Society School (1918-1925); was a pupil-teacher in the CMS School in Abagama; won a scholarship to the CMS Teacher Training College in Awka (1929); passed the London Matriculation Examination (1938); organized the African Students Association (1941); BSc in Business Administration (Ohio State University) (June 1942); MA in Social Science (University of Chicago) (1943); represented the ASA and AAA&R at the founding conference of the United Nations (1945); wrote and published a brief booklet “Portrait of A Boy” (early 1945); published “My Africa” (1946), “I Have Two Countries” (1947); founded and managed the African Development Corporation to foster local enterprise and manufacturing (1948); became the economic adviser to the Ibo State Union; worked as the managing director of Azikiwe's West African Pilot; elected Deputy Mayor of Lagos (1950); funded the Eastern Regional Finance Corporation (1954); elected a member of the Eastern House of Assembly and was appointed the Minister of Works (1954) and then Minister of Finance; The Ojike Memorial Medical Centre in Arondizuogu was opened (1974); died 29 September 1956 in Nigeria)