Arise Africa Peace Advocate Award Nominee Unveiled: Professor Ambassador Nwaocha Ogechukwu
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Professor Ambassador Nwaocha Ogechukwu is a UN-Polac International Peace Advocate, a certified Human Right Activist from International human Right Commission and a Laureate of Innovator Leadership Award and Mahatma Gandhi Community Development Award. He is an advocate for socio-cultural equality through his activism against the practice of igbo caste in south eastern Nigeria. Prior to the Nigerian Civil war the practice of Diala, Ume,, OHU and Osu caste system was a front line dogma which questioned the meaning of sustainable demoncracy as Igbo’ s quota in Nigerian democracy due to the implications of segregation and stigmatization.
Ambassador Nwaocha Ogechukwu has faced strong resistance of Igbo kinsmen against the Abolition of Osu caste system and discovered theory and Model for Abolition of the practice of the caste system thereby making the resistance and opposition weak to support effort to assure broader political participation of Igbo families in Nigerian politics and promote Igbo Community’s peace and Unity .
He is the Head of Peace Mission of Access to Human Right International and Human Right Activist of International Human Right Commission.
He has also published many peered reviewed Academic works on international Journals to that effect, as a result became the first scholar to develop three phase model , as a theory, for Abolition of caste system in Africa which thousands of Traditional Rulers and rural Communities used for total Abolition of ” the socio-cultural prejudice that has trado- Religious root in African culture.”