Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife was born in Igbo-Ukwu, in the the present-day Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State on 20 November 1939.
Like the shooting star he was so bight and brilliant growing up. However, after completing his primary school education, he did not attend secondary school, apparently because of prevailing poor economic situation of the time.
But he did not allow that to weigh him down. He taught himself through correspondence courses, qualifying for university admission.
He gained a BSc in Economics from the University College Ibadan, then attended Harvard University on a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship where he obtain a masters and then PhD degree in 1972.
He became a School Headmaster, a lecturer at Makarare University College, Kampala, Uganda, a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, and a Consultant with Arthur D. Little in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ezeife joined the civil service as an Administrative Officer and rose to the position of Permanent Secretary.
He was later elected governor of Anambra State on the platform of Social Democratic Party (SDP), holding office from 2 January 1992 to 17 November 1993, when General Sani Abacha took power after a military coup.
He died on November 15,2023 at the age of 84.
