West Africa
Theological Seminary

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Testimonial

“Jesus believed in wholistic ministry. He taught, he preached, he healed, he fed multitudes, and he challenged the status quo. He delivered captives in distress. He cured human need . . . So, this event is a symbolic act which proclaims the Lord's jubilee to a continent so very deeply in need of what God can do.»

Dr. William Sillings

Dr. Chidozie Nwangwu

Biography of Dr. Chidozie Nwangwu

Chido Nwangwu began his professional career as a very young man in the news, sports and programs production/camera/editing departments of the Nigerian Television Authority, though he has made his greatest mark as perhaps the leading African journalist in America. Today he is a recipient of the Journalism Excellence Award (1997), is the Founder and Publisher of the influential USAfrica, USAfricaonline.com (first African-owned U.S.-based professional newspaper to be published on the Internet), the Chinua Achebe project www.Achebebooks.com, the CLASS magazine, the photos and events site with the largest collection of contemporary images/events of continental Africans in America PhotoWorks.TV, The Black Business Journal , BBJonline.com, several blogs, and USAfrica The Newspaper which was voted the Number One community newspaper in Houston (fourth largest city in the U.S.) in the annual ranking by the readers and editors of the Houston Press in 2001.

The New York Times of September 23, 2003, noted that USAfrica is America's largest African-owned multimedia company. CLASS is the Africans-in-America's own Ebony and People and GQ - all rolled into one unique product: a glossy magazine of African style, music, living, and fashion. CLASS is the magazine for successful, pioneering, style-pace-setting and exemplary Africans in America.

Chido has appeared repeatedly as an analyst on CNN, the Voice of America/WorldNet and the Black Entertainment Television (BET), as well a number of local US TV and radio stations. Also, he was the only continental African publisher/reporter who traveled with and covered U.S. President Bill Clinton's historic visit to parts of Africa in 1998, and who covered Clinton's visit to Nigeria in late August, 2000. He was also the only Africa/African-American Publisher who reported from inside the joint sitting of the U.S Congress during Liberia's president Dr. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf''s historic speech in March 2006.

Chido served on Houston Mayor Lee Brown's international business advisory board (Africa) and has been honored by the Washington, DC-based National Immigration Forum for utilizing the media to fight authoritarianism and fostering freedom of expression on the African continent. He has served on the board of the Houston chapter of the NAACP, and was the first continental African to be admitted to the 100 Black Men of America, in the U.S.

In 2005, Chido established one of the most vibrant Africa community e-groups/blogs/community calendars for sharing info/announcements of upcoming and special events, insight to significant dates, festivals, events, resolutions/communique and historic milestones involving (or relevant to) persons, organizations and groups of Nigerian descent Nigeria360, the blog for the Igbo pan-African heritage, called IgboEvents; an Anglican community blog, AnglicanAfrican, and more. They are all powered by the resources of USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com.

Nwangwu speaks at colleges and businesses on technology issues, especially how the unfolding digital world and internet affect Africans, African-Americans and recent immigrants. He served as a panelist at the 2000 BBC/PRI global technology forum in San Francisco. He served on the editorial board of the Daily Times of Nigeria in 1989 into the early 1990s, 1988-1989 assistant editor of the Platform magazine, African and The World journal. He contributes to The Mail and Guardian of South Africa, Houston Chronicle, and numerous U.S.-based and Africa issues publications.

In recognition of his engaging and pioneering digital design work on USAfricaonline.com and other web sites, Chido was voted the #1 African-American web designer in 1997 by the Houston Association of Black Journalists. He has since conceptualized, designed and maintained through his company, USAfrica Digital Media, a number of web sites, including private corporations and such governmental sites as the Abia State of Nigeria first web site in 2001.

Nwangwu is author of the special report, Clinton's Africa, and is writing a book on the experiences of recent African immigrants in the U.S.

He has been profiled in the Houston Chronicle (8th highest circulated newspaper in the U.S.), the Orlando Sentinel, Mail and Guardian of South Africa, and a number of other publications. Some of Chido Nwangwu's works, bio-data and context of his writings were recently profiled in February, 2001 in a report in the Houston Press by prolific essayist and reporter John Suval.

Chido Nwangwu has been a friend and supporter of West Africa Theological Seminary for nearly fifteen years. He is well known in Houston and beyond as the convener of the annual inter-denominational USAfrica Prayer Breakfast, which holds at 9am prompt on the last Saturday of every January, of every year, since 1999. He serves on the advisory board of several community building and international organizations including EVA (Education as Vaccine against AIDS-based in Nigeria and the U.S). He is an active new technologies analyst, television and multimedia executive, cross-cultural business consultant and an artist.

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Praise God for these men of God who support WATS!

Other Honorees

• Brig. Gen. Samuel Laiye Teidi (rtd), Doctor of Humanities
• Dr. Chidozie Nwangwu, Doctor of Humanities
• Rev. Dr. Benedict C. Kofi Obiako, Doctor of Divinity
• Rev. Dr. Leroy Adams, Doctor of Divinity
• Rev. Dr. Donald R. Plemons, Doctor of Divinity
• Rev. Dr. Bernard Dawson, Doctor of Divinity
• Rev. Dr. Alan Bullock, Doctor of Divinity