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His first job was 'flipping burgers for MacDonald's and working behind the bar at a seedy Cheltershire nightclub.
Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie received his MBE from Her Majesty The Queen in a ceremony at the Buckingham Palace on Friday, May 5th.
Chukwu-Emeka
is the Executive Director and co-founder of the London-based African
Foundation for Development (AFFORD), an organization with a mission to
expand and enhance the contribution that Africans in the Diaspora make
to Africa's development.
He is of dual Nigerian/Sierra Leonean
origin with family ties extending to Equitorial Guinea. He has worked as
a consultant for several international development donor agencies
around engaging the Diaspora in development and has commented widely on
migration and development issues in the media and in public fora.
Chukwu-Emeka
was educated at early primary school in Cheltenham, UK followed by
later primary and secondary schools in Freetown. His first two years of
university were at FBC, Freetown with the remainder at Gloucestershire
College of Arts and Technology, Northeast London Polytechnic(now
University of East London) the London College of Printing and
Distributive Trades and City University.
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