Prof. Emeka Aniagolu is from Enugu State, Nigeria.

He is the second son of the great late jurist, Honorable Justice A.N. Aniagolu (JSC). Prof. Aniagolu is married with two daughters—one a lawyer and the other a medical doctor. Prof. Aniagolu attended the renowned high school in Nigeria, Government College Umuahia.

He did his undergraduate work in Political Science at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, and his graduate work in Political Science, African and African American Studies at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

He was a Professor in the Black World Studies of Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, where he taught African and African-American History and Politics. Emeka Aniagolu’s first novel, Black Mustard Seed, is critically acclaimed by major scholars in the field of African Literature (including the greatest African novelist, Chinua Achebe). It was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize in August of 2002. His second novel, African Glimpses: Three Short Stories, also received critical reviews and acclaim. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Veritas University, Bwari, Abuja as well as their International Innovation Consultant.

Prof. Aniagolu is the author of twenty works of fiction and non-fiction. His seminal works include, but are not limited to the following:

Anyali [A novel on the Albino experience in Nigerian society], (2021)

The Hood & the Swastika: A Comparative Study of the Ku Klux Klan & the Nazi Regime (2017)

A Tale of Two Giants: Chinua Achebe & Wole Soyinka (2016)

Co-Whites: How & Why White Women “Betrayed” the Struggle for Civil

Rights in the United States (2011)

[A two-volume work on world history], Standing on the Shoulders of

Giants: A Multicultural History of Western & World Civilization (Vols. I & II) (2008); Beyond the Wealth of Nations: Essays on a Search for Understanding,

Community & Productivity (2006).