Ralph uwazuruike biography
Ralph Uwazuruike is a Nigerian activist.
Ralph Uwazuruike is a Nigerian activist..
Ralph Uwazuruike
Nigerian activist
Ralph Uwazuruike is a Nigerian activist. He is the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB); a group canvassing for the secession and sovereignty of Eastern Nigeria.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] He holds degrees in Political Science from Punjab University, India, and Law from Bombay University, India.
Uwazuruike adopts the principle of nonviolence as propagated by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., as the philosophy of the struggle. He has been detained several times and charged with treason in Nigerian courts. On 28 April 2010, he was visited in prison by Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu and his wife, Bianca.[9]
Following Ojukwu's death in 2011, Uwazuruike was named his successor and crowned 'Ezeigbo'.[10] He has since embarked on several regional projects including the erection of a library in hono