The Emmanuel Onyechere Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe Lecture series is dedicated Anyiam Osigwe`s all-embracing study of man as a manifestation of divine intelligence; It is a scholarly examination of the integral parts of the Holistic Approach to Human Existence
and Development including the interrelationship between the various parts, with a view to making them applicable in uplifting the daily life of individual and the society at large. THE SESSIONS OF THE LECTURE SERIES SO FAR HELD INCLUDE:-
INAUGURAL SESSION: NOVEMBER 1999
CENTRAL THEME: The Search for A Holistic Approach to Human Existence and Development
SUB-THEMES AND SPEAKERS
- The Onto-theistic Destiny of Creation: The Chi Dynamics in the Essential Determination of the Cosmos and Man – His Grace, Most Reverend Dr. A.J.V. Obinna, Archbishop of the Owerri Arch Diocese of the Catholic Church
- People and Development: Towards Participatory Sustainable Human Development. – Professor Emmanuel Oladipo, Sustainable Development Adviser to UNDP, Nigeria
SECOND SESSION NOVEMBER 2000
CENTRAL THEME: Towards a Better World Order: The Family as its Basic Building Block.
SUB-THEMES AND SPEAKERS
- Harnessing the Synergistic Potentials of the Family Towards Effective Poverty Eradication in Africa – Professor Bolanle Awe
- Sustainable Quality Child Care: The Foundation of National Development – Professor Theodore C. Okeahialam
- Leadership and its Application to Child Development in Africa – Fredrik Willem de Klerk, former President of South Africa (1989 – 1994)
THIRD SESSION: NOVEMBER 2001
CENTRAL THEME: Women as the Salt of the Earth: Women Empowerment through an Improved Understanding of Womanhood.
SUB-THEME AND SPEAKER
Genuine Women Empowerment: An Imperative for Achieving Concrete Human Development Objectives – His Excellency Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United State of America
FOURTH SESSION: NOVEMBER 2002
CENTRAL THEME: Youth and Education: Africa’s 21st century Youths; Everyone a Fisherman
SUB-THEME AND SPEAKER:
Youth and Education in a Changing World – The Right Honourable John Major, former Prime Minister of Great Britain.
FIFTH SESSION: NOVEMBER 2003
CENTRAL THEME:The Cosmopolitan Expression of the Group Mind Principle: Patriotism and the Group Mind; Spirit of the Team, Spur of the Nation
SUB-THEME AND SPEAKER
Man, the State and a Better World Order – His Excellency, Shimon Peres, President of Israel.
SIXTH SESSION: NOVEMBER 2004
CENTRAL THEME:Introspectionism: Green Grasses of Home; The Key to Development is Within and Around you
SUB-THEMES AND SPEAKERS
- Harnessing Internal Values towards Building Viable Partnership for Holistic Development – Mrs Cherie Blair QC
- Introspection and Integration as Effective Strategies for Development – Dr. Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany
SEVENTH SESSION: NOVEMBER 2005
CENTRAL THEME: The Mindset Factor in Creative Transformation: All Minds at Work, All Hands on Deck
SUB-THEMES AND SPEAKERS
Towards an All-inclusive Approach to Development: Integrating the Physically and Mentally Challenged in the Development Process – Mrs. Tipper Gore
Socio-political and Economic Development in the Developing World: Activating a National Mindset – His Excellency, Fernando Cardoso, former President of Brazil
EIGHTH SESSION: NOVEMBER 2006
CENTRAL THEME: As it was in the Beginning: Synthesis for Africa’s Socio-Political and Economic Transformation
SUB-THEME AND SPEAKER
Towards an Appropriate Orientation to Change and Development: Contextualisation as Key to a Viable Socio-Political and Economic Future for Developing Nations – Aleksander Kwasniewki, former President of Poland
NINTH SESSION: NOVEMBER 2007
CENTRAL THEME: Harnessing Africa’s Capital: That the People may Have Life and Live it More Abundantly; Development, Capital and the Metaphysical Dimension
SUB-THEME AND SPEAKER
Europe as a Strategic Partner in Harnessing African Capital – His Excellency, Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic
TENTH SESSION: NOVEMBER 2008
CENTRAL THEME: The Unity of the Absolute: The Oneness of All Religion; Value Guided Conduct as a Universal Tenet and Propriety as a Way of Life for Mankind
SUB-THEME AND SPEAKER
The Universality of the God Principle: The sense of Unity in the teaching of the Great Masters.
His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso (The 14th Dalai Lama, The Spiritual and Temporal Leader of the Tibetan people)
ELEVENTH SESSION: NOVEMBER 2009
CENTRAL THEME: To Live in the Way That Honours: Incorruptibility; A Spiritual Premise for a Material Wellbeing
SUB-THEME AND SPEAKER
Corruption, State Craft and National Development
Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohammed, former Prime Minister of Malaysia
TWELFTH SESSION: NOVEMBER 2010
CENTRAL THEME: Democracy as Holism: National Security, Political Stability, Peace and Socio-Economic Development as Integrals of Democracy; That the Doves May Be Set Free in our Land
SUB-THEME AND SPEAKER
National Security as a Fundamental to Building Sustainable Democracy
His Excellency, Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan
THIRTEENTH SESSION 2012
CENTRAL THEME: Synthesis for Nationhood: Ethnic Policy and National Integration; From Indigenes to Citizens
SUB-THEME AND SPEAKER
Ethnic Policy and National Integration
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, former President of Sri Lanka
FOURTEENTH SESSION 2013
CENTRAL THEME: Genuine Democracy: The Price and the Prize
SUB-THEME AND SPEAKER
Leadership and the Challenge of Delivering Appropriate Dividends of Democracy to the Citizens
Her Excellency, Dr. Joyce Banda, President of the Republic of Malawi
FIFTEENTH SESSION 2015
CENTRAL THEME: To live in the way that Honours: Incorruptibility; A spiritual Premise for Material wellbeing
SUB-THEME AND SPEAKER:
The contradictions that inhibit anti-corruption initiatives in Nigeria and the perspective to their deconstruction
His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
