Dominic Ignatius Ekandem 1917-1995: Prince-Cardinal, Nigerian Vanguard of Catholicism

By Michael I Edem CM

A phenomenon seldom recognised in the media of Western Europe and North America is the extraordinary growth of the Catholic Church of South America and sub-Saharan Africa during the last five decades, and nowhere more than in Nigeria.

A key figure in that country and in that growth, up to his death in 1995, was Cardinal Ekandem, the first Anglophone West-African bishop - the first of many - and an outstanding churchman of the 20th Century.

Fr Michael Edem's scholarly biography of the Cardinal is a fascinating account of a journey from life in a traditional African village to the consistory of cardinals of the Catholic Church in Rome.

It will be of enormous interest to a wider public for the author's personal knowledge of the cardinal and of the Efiok/Ibibio culture in which they both grew up.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C6G9XH2K
• ISBN13: 9798889631309
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Pageturner Press and Media
• Length: 836 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"