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          Chidi Anselm Odinkalu (b.!

          Chidi Odinkalu, Senior team manager, Africa Program, Open Society Justice Initiative.

        1. 34 yrs ago, I was a young lawyer beating my early path in professional life.
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        3. As a third-generation educator, Professor Chidi Odinkalu always thought that teaching was a vehicle for public service.
        4. His biography is at the beginning of the narrative of judicial capture in #PostColonialAfrica.

          5. Chidi Odinkalu

          Nigerian human rights activist and lawyer

          Chidi Anselm Odinkalu (b. June 12, 1968) is a Nigerian human rights activist, lawyer, professor and writer. He was the former chairman of Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission (Nigeria) and was recently the senior team manager for the Africa Program of Open Society Justice Initiative.[1]

          He has worked as an advisor for the Ford Foundation New York, World Bank, African Union, International Council for Human Rights Policy, Geneva; and many others.[2] August 2021, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University appointed Odinkalu a Professor in Human Rights Law.[3]

          In 2018, he co-authored a book titled Too Good to Die with Ayisha Osori.[4]

          Early life

          Odinkalu was born in Ihiala, Anambra State to two teachers: Augustine Chukwuma Odinkalu and Anthonia Ihunna Odinkalu.

          He hails from Orlu, Imo State.[5]

          Education

          Odinkalu obtained his law degree (LL