Ajay Prabhakar
Ajay Prabhakar is an Indian researcher and author who until recently was a United Nations Country Programs officer. He has worked with the Nigerian Presidency in the Arts and Culture parastatal under President Olusegun Obasanjo. Prabhakar still serves as a consultant to the United Nations and other International bodies on Sustainable Development goals, Research and Education.
Early life
Born in Kerala, on the 24th of June, 1978, Ajay Prabhakar is a graduate of the Mumbai University and has a doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina.
Career
Ajay Prabhakar is the author of 6 books, many of which are being used in schools, colleges and universities in the United States of America, Europe, Asia and Africa.[1] He has done several projects under the aegis of United Nations in the domains of Education,[2] Sustainable Development, Research,[3] Archaeology,[4] Governance etc. He was appointed Africa Renaissance Ambassador and also serves as an Ambassador for Global Peace by the Universal Peace Federation. He was decorated as an Ambassador for Research and Education by the Nigerian Presidency.
Dr. Ajay Prabhakar is the head of several research projects being carried out in Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA. He is involved in archaeological, restoration and conservation projects including the Ikom Monoliths Project of Ikom, Cross River state, the Homo Erectus site in Okigwe,[5] Monolithic writings in Ireland and the lost city of Igbale Aiye, Benin,[6] among the prominent others. His work has been referred to and appreciated in other prominent research projects.[7] Dr. Prabhakars' work has been featured on several media including C-Span[8] and BBC.
Prabhakar has also worked with the office of several world leaders like General Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and William Jefferson Clinton through his association with United Nations. Together with Catherine Acholonu, he is the co-founder of the Catherine Acholonu Research Foundation (CARC).[9]
Bibliography
His books include the Gram Code of African Adam, Windows XP and Productivity Program, written in conjunction with Microsoft, The lost testaments of the African Adam, Impressions and a different path and they lived before Adam. He has also been in the forefront of several community based projects in Africa, some of them notably the Education for all project, motherless babies and the child soldier rehabilitation projects.
Legacy and Work
Books authored by Ajay Prabhakar
- The Gram Code of African Adam: Stone Books and Cave Libraries, Reconstructing 450,000 Years of Africa's Lost Civilizations, 2005 [10]
- Windows XP and Productivity Programs (Microsoft UP Project Handbook)
- The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam: Unearthing Heliopolis/Igbo Ukwu – The Celestial City of the Gods of Egypt and India, 2010
- Impressions - A Handbook on Research and Processes
- They Lived Before Adam: Pre-Historic Origins of the Igbo – The Never-Been-Ruled (Ndi Igbo since 1.6 million B.C.) [11]
- A Different Path
White Papers by Dr. Ajay Prabhakar
- Comparison and Implementation of Educational Grass root models in Asia and Africa
- Olaudah Equiano – A Linguistic and Anthropological Search", The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 22.1 (1987). 5–16.
- The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano, 1995, revised 2007.
Honors
African Renaissance Ambassador Ambassador for World Peace
Awards
The International Book Award 2010[12]
The Flora Nwapa Award 2009
The Phillis Wheatley Award 2007
The Harlem Book Fair Award 2008
References
- ↑ "Textbooks being used". University of California, Riverside. Retrieved 6 January 2005.
- ↑ "An Independent Researcher and Educator report of the research work done by Ajay Prabhakar". Independent Researcher and Educator. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ↑ "The Nation Newspaper report of the research work done by Ajay Prabhakar". Nation Newspaper. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
- ↑ "The IOL Newspaper report of the research work done by Ajay Prabhakar". Newspaper report. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ↑ "Reference of Dr.Ajay Prabhakar conservation work in the Daily Independent". Daily Independent. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
- ↑ "The Guardian Newspaper report of Ajay Prabhakars' research and discovery of the underground city". Guardian Newspaper report. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ↑ "Reference of Dr.Ajay Prabhakar work in the African Journal of Physics" (PDF). African Journal of Physics. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- ↑ "C-Span Feature on the book". C- Span. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
- ↑ "Dr. (Prince) Ajay Prabhakar". The Catherine Acholonu Research Foundation. Retrieved 12 April 2006.
- ↑ "Carlton University reference" (PDF). Carlton University. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
- ↑ "Harvard College Library Worldcat reference". Harvard College Library Worldcat reference. Retrieved 15 July 2005.
- ↑ "The International Book Award". The International Book Award. Retrieved 12 March 2015.