E S Akpata

E S Akpata

Enosakhare Samuel Akpata lived and worked as professor for twenty-three years in the Middle East – thirteen in Saudi Arabia and ten years in Kuwait. He started his academic career at the University of Lagos where he was appointed professor of restorative dentistry in 1979. He has authored numerous articles in peer reviewed scientific and professional international journals. He was the founding editor of the African Dental Journal as well as editor of Medical Ethics, a textbook used in some Nigerian universities. The second edition of his popular dental textbook was published by Quintessence in 2013 with a new title, Principles and Practice of Operative Dentistry: A Modern Approach.

Professor Akpata obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate dental degrees from Leeds University, England. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Scotland; the National Medical College, Nigeria and the West African College of Surgeons. He was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the New York University Faculty of Dentistry, USA in 1981.

His hobbies are playing the piano and golfing. He is married with three sons and grandchildren.

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    By : E S Akpata

    Sand, Sun and Surprises

    ₦5,000.00

    Part travelogue, part insightful memoir, Sand, Sun and Surprises memorialises the decades that Prof E S Akpata spent living and working as a Nigerian expatriate in oil-rich Middle East. A top scholar in the field of dental surgery, he leaves Nigeria during the recession of the 1980s, to take up, initially, a temporary job in the region, but ends up spending twenty-three years pioneering research and other academic activities in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

     

    Sand, Sun and Surprises demystifies the culture of the Arab world; it is a fascinating take, filled with moments of humour – like the one time when he thinks his car is stolen in Kuwait, and after searching for hours, finds it in the same spot he left it. The author describes a region transformed from harsh desert conditions to gleaming cities made of glass and steel, elegant buildings, and five-star restaurants; changes that seemed to have occurred in an instant.

     

    This is a practical book for those who wish to understand, emigrate or visit the Middle East for work or leisure.