Dr. Jacob Udayi Agba is a forty-six year-old Nigerian from Obudu in Cross River State, Nigeria. Though Dr. Agba is visually impaired, he has a Ph.D in Media and Communication Studies. Dr. Jacob U. Agba who is also a knight of the Catholic Church in..
Dr. Jacob Udayi Agba is a forty-six year-old Nigerian from Obudu in Cross River State, Nigeria. Though Dr. Agba is visually impaired, he has a Ph.D in Media and Communication Studies. Dr. Jacob U. Agba who is also a knight of the Catholic Church in the order of the Knight of Saint Molumba has worked for more than twenty-five years in different capacities as a broadcaster for fifteen years and as a university lecturer; the job he has performed for ten years now . In addition, Dr. Agba has worked as an assistive technology instructor to the visually Impaired in the South-South Community Resource Centre, Calabar, Nigeria for nine years as well as volunteer rehabilitation officer in Dr. Bassey Kubiangha Education Foundation also in Calabar, Nigeria. In 2010 as part of the celebrations marking Nigeria’s fifty years as an independent nation, Jacob U. Agba was one of the fifty citizens of Cross River State recognized with a special award for his contribution to the academia and development of his state. At the moment, He teaches Mass Communication in the Cross River University of Technology and adjunct Lecturer, Department of Theatre and Media Studies, University of Calabar, Nigeria; the job he has been doing for the past ten years. He is married to Lydia and the marriage has been blessed with six children. Jacob is credited with more than fifteen local and international publications including: I. Jacob Udayi Agba. Introduction to Community Broadcasting, 2006.II. Jacob Udayi Agba. Radio and Community Theatre in Rural Development, 2006.III. Jacob Udayi Agba. “Globalization and Alternative Development Paradigm for Africa” (2008). West African Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Vol. 2 No. 2 pp38-61. IV. Jacob U. Agba. (2009). “Multidisciplinary Approach in Service Delivery in Special Education” Journal of Early Child and Special Educatione Vol. 2 no. 1 PP-V. Jacob Udayi Agba. Liberation of the Oppressed: Nwamuo’s Analysis of Early Poetics of Society (2009). In Dramatogy of Liberation and Survival. (2009). Edited by Esekong H. Andrew and Babson Ajibade. Calabar: University of Calabar Press. VI. Jacob Udayi Agba and James E. Olayi. “Communication Strategies in Curriculum Adaptation in the Education of the Visually Impaired” Exceptional Child: the Journal of National Centre for Exceptional Children: Vol. 12 no. 1 June, 2010 pp11-27. VII. Jacob Udayi Agba. (2010). Gender Issues in Popular Cinema (2010) in “Annals of Humanities and Development Studies, 1 (2)” pp.193-203. VIII. Jacob Udayi Agba, James E. Olayi and James Ewa. “Deployment of Assistive Technology in the Inclusion of the Visually Impaired Students into Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria”.(2010). Journal of Association of Libraries for the Visually Impaired.pp.95-104. IX. Jacob U. Agba (2011). “Radio Drama as an Art Form for Education” in Theatre Studies Review Vol. 6 no. 1 pp.52-73.X. Jacob U. Agba and James E. Olayi. 2011). English and the Computer Technology: the Nigerian Situation. Annals of Humanities and Development Studies, 2 (1), pp.107-121. XI. Jacob U. Agba and Patrick U. Ineji. (2011). Audience Perception of Nollywood Films. LWATI A Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 8, Issue 1. pp.259-271.XII. Jacob U. Agba and James E. Olayi (2011) “The Inclusion of the Visually Impaired in Film Experience” THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE ARTS IN SOCIETY VOLUME 6, ISSUE 4, http://www.arts-journal.compp.169-184 Champaign, Illinois: Common Ground Publishing LLC. (www.CommonGroundPublishing.com)ISSN: 1833-1866XIII. Jacob U. Agba. (2012). Selected Topical Issues in the History of Nigerian Mass Media. Calabar: University of Calabar Press. XIV. Agba, J. U. and N. Brown (2012). “Strategies in Educational Broadcast”. CRUTECH Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology (JOSET) Vol. 1, No. 2, December. Pp.35-42.XV. Jacob Udayi Agba. “The Performing Arts and the Carnival, Calabar: Implications for Human Rights Protection in Nigeria”. IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 11, Issue 4. May.-Jun. 2013), Pp.04-12.
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