Catholic Women: Carriers of Living Water to a World that Thirsts for Peace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780878310012)

Dr. Rose Ure Mezu was born in Nigeria and studied in Port-Harcourt, (Nigeria), Abidjan, (Côte d'Ivoire), Buffalo (New York) and Paris (France) where she graduated with a Diplôme d'Etudes from the Sorbonne. She obtained a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1993, specializing in Francophone and Anglo-phone Feminist Literature. She had been a Commissioner of Social Welfare in Imo State, Nigeria, and Professor of English, Women Studies and Comparative Literature at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is also the founder and Co-ordinator of WADS: Black Creativity & the State of the Race, which organizes international and interdisciplinary conferences on Africa and the Diaspora. A widely published scholar, her books include Women in Chains: Abandonment in Love Relationships in the Fiction of Selected West African Writers (1994), Songs of the Hearth (1993), Homage to my People (2004), A History of Africana Women's Literature (2004); John Paul II and Africa (2005); Africa and the Diaspora: The Black Scholar and Society (1999); Religion and Society (1999); Writers of African Descent Speak: Black Creativity and the State of the Race - Leadership, Culture, and Racism (1998); Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works(2005); and with Dr S. Okechukwu Mezu, Black Nationalists: Reconsidering Du Bois, Garvey, Booker T. & Nkrumah(1999);