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I abhor racism, corruption and poverty in any society. This no doubt inspired me to concentrate on alleviating their problems through my studies and researches. Over time, I saw that corruption and poverty have become a problem which needed immediate attention. I have been crusading against corruption and poverty in Africa, particularly Nigeria for over 13 years. Based on my real life encounters in Nigeria and traveling around the world. My initial interest was in agriculture but was redirected to this present course when I observed the escalation of corruption and poverty and failure of many governments and organisations to fight the malaise, which has bedeviled the world. Because corruption hurts the poor mainly, fighting it became a task that must be put into reality.
I have been researching on corruption practically for over 13 years but my postgraduate studies brought me to terms with documentation of corruption and poverty through academic research. My research interests focus on good governance (transparency and accountability) and poverty alleviation in Africa.
As a doctorate student at the University of Reading, United Kingdom, I designed the first unique methodology used in measuring corruption at household level (focus groups) in Africa. It is worthy to note that my methodology facilitated 2 successful corruption surveys on 135 income households, 68 key and area informants, stratified and randomly selected, based on their income levels – low, medium and high, and how Police corruption impacts on provision of security, protection of lives and properties, and maintenance of law and order.
In addition, I have 13 years frontline experience in Agricultural Cooperative Extension, Advocacy/Campaign, Monitoring and Evaluation, Teaching and Training the Trainers, Fund-raising, Youth/women organization/Development, Conflict Management and Resolution. I have a versatile background and has worked and volunteered for Federal Ministry of Agriculture, DFRRI and several Bilateral, Multilateral, Not-for-Profit Organisations funded by the UN, EEC, USAID and ILO in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, India, the Netherlands, United States and Britain and has traveled to several African, Asian European and North American countries.
In States, I am privileged to have visited 32 states and have resided in lllinois, Georgia, California, Ohio and now my State Pennsylvania where I reside permanently. I have a Ph.D in Geography (Research), M.A in International Security Studies and MSc in Agricultural Extension Systems and Management, From the University of Reading, United Kingdom, and Diploma in Anti-corruption Training, from U4 Corruption Resource Center, Bergen, Norway, and other numerous educational and training qualifications.
I am very passionate about fighting corruption in Africa. I have lit many candles burning continuously to echo the anti-corruption theme:
"We must all be united globally to fight corruption. It is not only an Africa problem. Corruption occurs in every country in the world. It is not the governments that can fight corruption but the people, especially the youths, when they are empowered. This is the time for us to work in unison and empower the African youths through education, and training, so that they could fight corruption head-on, from the grassroots to the the top. This would make them become, good, transparent and accountable leaders of their countries.
Dr. Etuka Chris Obinwa
Good governance/Anti-corruption Expert
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- A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan Smith
- Age of Fear: Power Versus Principle in the War on Terror by Amitav Acharya
- Agricultural Extension
- Agricultural Extension and Research: Achievements and Problems in National Systems by Dennis L. Purcell, Jock R. Anderson
- Agricultural Extension: The Training and Visit System by Daniel, M.D. Benor
- Albatros Aces of World War 1 Part 2 by Greg Vanwyngarden
- America's War on Terrorism: The Revival of the Nation-State Versus Universal Human Rights by Kenneth Christie
- America, Russia and the Cold War 1945-1996
- America, Russia and the Cold War 1945-2006 by Walter LaFeber
- Anticorruption in Transition 3: Who Is Succeeding... and Why? by James H. Anderson, Cheryl W. Gray
- Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
- As You Like It by William Shakespeare
- Bad Strategies: How Major Powers Fail in Counterinsurgency by James S. Corum PhD
- Battling Corruption in America's Public Schools by Lydia G. Segal
- Becoming a Successful Manager: How to Make a Smooth Transition from Managing Yourself to Managing Others by Jack Grossman, J. Robert Parkinson
- Case Study Research: Design and Methods by Robert K. Yin
- Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform by Susan Rose-Ackerman
- Corruption Arts in Third World International Business: Traps, Swizzles, and Swindles Used by the Master Players by Rich Gottbreht, Sue Collier
- Corruption in Nigeria. the Niger Delta Experience
- Corruption: A Study in Political Economy by S. Rose-Ackerman
- Cruelty and Deception: The Controversy Over Dirty Hands in Politics
- Curbing Corruption: Toward a Model for Building National Integrity
- Downsize This by Michael Moore
- Duchess of Death: The Biography of Agatha Christie by Richard Hack
- Education Through Cooperative Extension by Brenda S. Seevers, Donna L. Graham, Julia A. Gamon
- Education, Lawlessness, and Political Corruption in America by Harold H. Punke
- Fela: This Bitch of a Life by Carlos Moore
- Frames Of War by Judith Butler
- Globalisation and Its Discontents: Writing the Global Culture
- Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Hit and Run by James Hadley Chase
- Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe
- If Tomorrow Comes
- Kill Your Teacher: Corruption And Racism in Los Angeles City Schools by Nachum Shifren
- Kleptocracy in Nigeria by Matthias Igbarumah
- Macbeth (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Shakespeare
- Madoff: Corruption, Deceit, and the Making of the World's Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme by Peter Sander
- Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
- Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Manhunt: The 12-day Chase For Lincoln's Killer by James L Swanson
- Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) by Agatha Christie
- Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Official Final Report about 9/11 is Unscientific and False by David Ray Griffin
- Nigeria the Stolen Billions by Agwuncha Arthur Nwankwo
- No Longer at Ease (African Writers Series) by Chinua Achebe
- Not Safe to Be Free by James Hadley Chase
- On War by Carl von Clausewitz, Beatrice Heuser
- Peacekeeping and the UN Agencies by Jim Whitman
- Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption
- Planning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide for Educators, Trainers, and Staff Developers by Rosemary S. Caffarella
- Preemption by Alan Dershowitz
- Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches by John W Creswell
- Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Appro by John W Creswell
- Research-Doctorate Programs in by J. Field Marilyn
- Roaring Nineties by Joseph Stiglitz
- Shakespare's Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
- Sidney Sheldon's Mistress Of The Game Intl by Sidney Sheldon
- T.H. Green's Theory of Positive Freedom: From Metaphysics to Political Theory by Ben Wempe
- Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century by Cindy C. Combs
- The 7 Habits for Managers: Managing Yourself, Leading Others, Unleashing Potential by Stephen R. Covey
- The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America by Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Biafra Story: The Making of an African Legend by Frederick Forsyth
- The Center Holds: UN Reform for 21st-Century Challenges
- The CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE REMAKING OF WORLD ORDER by Samuel P. Huntington
- The Contradictions of 'One Nigeria' Corruption of Power and Failure in Victory by Uchenna Odogwo
- The Craft of Research, Third Edition by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams
- The Doomsday Conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon
- The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith
- The French Betrayal of Rwanda by Daniela Kroslak
- The Other Side of Me by Sidney Sheldon
- The United Nations and Civil Wars
- The United Nations at the Crossroads of Reform by Wendell Gordon
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Third Eye by T. Lobsang Rampa
- Trauma at Home: After 9/11
- Voices of Terror: Manifestos, Writings and Manuals of Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other Terrorists from around the World and Throughout the Ages by Walter Laqueur
- Weep Not, Child by Wa Thiong'o Ngugi
- While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within by Bruce Bawer
- Will You Still Love Me If I Don't Win: A Guide for Parents of Young Athletes by Christopher Andersonn, Barbara Andersonn
- Working to Fail in Rwanda: The Mirage of UN Peacekeeping by Amadou Deme, Phil Taylor
- You - Forever by Lobsang Rampa
- You Never Know with Women by James Hadley Chase
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