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Lawrence Odiatu Victor Anionwu (5 May 1921 – 12 June 1980) was a Nigerian administrator and diplomat. He was the first Nigerian Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nigeria's first Ambassador to Italy.
Shortly before her 25th birthday she suddenly found her father: barrister and former Nigerian Ambassador to Italy and the Vatican, Lawrence Anionwu. She was to visit Nigeria frequently and later changed her surname to Anionwu.
3 giu 2021 · In our exclusive interview with Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, the iconic Professor of Nursing talks about her journey to accepting her mixed heritage and describes her work in Sickle Cell treatment as her life’s greatest achievement. “I washed my face up to ten times at one point to become white…”
19 ott 2023 · Born on the 2nd of July, 1947, in Birmingham, England, her journey began as Elizabeth Mary Furlong, the child of an Irish mother, Mary Maureen Furlong, and a Nigerian father, Lawrence Odiatu Victor Anionwu, a law student at Cambridge University at the time.
12 giu 2018 · Dame Elizabeth Anionwu. @EAnionwu. I suddenly found my father Lawrence Odiatu Victor Anionwu (known affectionately as LOV) when I was 25. Changed my surname to his 4 years later. Seen here with him in his hometown of #Onitsha #Nigeria Was to know him for only 8 years before his sudden death #OTD 12th June 1980. 9:18 AM · Jun 12, 2018. Retweets. 1.
Lawrence Odiatu Victor Anionwu was a Nigerian administrator and diplomat. He was the first Nigerian Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nigeria's first Ambassador to Italy.[1][2]
Anionwu’s activism addresses systemic barriers to health career progression among people from racial and ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom. Her autobiography, “Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union,” describes how growing up as a black child in white Britain motivated her to create change.
