Queen Elizabeth II of Britain has conferred
one of the highest national honours, Dame Commander of the Order of the British
Emprire, on a British-born Nigerian nurse, health expert, lecturer and medical
professor, Ms. Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu.
Anionwu was
born Elizabeth Mary Furlong in Birmingham, United Kingdom, and is the child of
then unmarried 20-year-old Irish woman, Mary Furlong.
Furlong was brilliant and excelled academically, obtaining a scholarship to Cambridge University to study classics.
Furlong was brilliant and excelled academically, obtaining a scholarship to Cambridge University to study classics.
Anionwu contributed to opening the first
sickle cell and thalassemia counseling centre in the UK. She also helped create
the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice at the University of West London.
Anionwu is a
member and patron of multiple committees: Sickle Cell Society, Nigerian Nurses
Charitable Association UK, Vice President of Unite/Community Practitioners and
Health Visitors Association, Editorial Advisory Board of Nursing Standard, NHS
Sickle Cell & Thalassemia Screening Programme Steering Group, Honorary
Advisor to the Chief Nursing Officer’s Black & Minority Ethnic Advisory
Group, and Life patron of The Mary Seacole Trust.
The conferment on Dame Anionwu of Irish and
Nigerian descent was in recognition of her services to the nursing profession
in the United Kingdom.
Though she
retired in 2007, Anionwu has remained active in the nursing community and
overlooks many projects.
big congrats to her.
my opinion
i think what matters is who you are not who they say you are. yes, she does not need to be white before she got such an honour from the queen of the time
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