Elizabeth Anionwu’s Memoir: Mixed Blessings From A Cambridge Union Exceeds All SuperlativesPosted in Articles, Autobiography, Book/Video Reviews, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2016-12-29 01:57Z by Steven |
Elizabeth Anionwu’s Memoir: Mixed Blessings From A Cambridge Union Exceeds All Superlatives
The Huffington Post
2016-12-28
Claudia Tomlinson, Author, campaigner, entrepreneur
London, England
 Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Anionwu: Photograph by Barney Newman |
Elizabeth Anionwu is a diminutive woman of colossal talent in everything she has turned her hand to, and to top off a high achieving career, her memoir has now outed her as a wonderful author.
She was born in 1947, from the relationship between her father, a Nigerian student, and her mother Mary, a Classics student whose family came from County Wexford and County Down, in Ireland, to settle in Liverpool.
Their romance blossomed at Cambridge University, at a time of discrimination against both black and Irish people in England.
Born into a strong Catholic family on her mother’s side, Elizabeth’s arrival, to unmarried parents, was a shock to her mother’s family threatening to bring great shame to the family…
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