Dominic Ignatius Ekandem 1917-1995

<p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>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.</span></p>