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{{short description|Nigerian politician}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
|name         = Kemafo Nonyerem Chikwe
|image        = Kema chikwe.jpg
|imagesize    = 150px
|caption      = Kema Chikwe at an [[Igbo people|Igbo]] new [[Yam (vegetable)|yam]] festival, [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]].
|office1      = Federal Minister of Transport
|term_start1  = June 1999
|term_end1    = 2001
|predecessor1 = 
|successor1   = [[Ojo Maduekwe]]
|office2      = Federal Minister of Aviation
|term_start2  = 2001
|term_end2    = May 2003
|predecessor2 = [[Olusegun Agagu]]
|successor2   = [[Isa Yuguda]]
|birth_date   = 
|birth_place  = [[Aba, Nigeria|Aba]], [[Abia State]], [[Nigeria]]
|party        =[[People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)|People's Democratic Party]]
|spouse       =
|religion     =
|Educational background=
}} 
'''Kemafo Nonyerem "Kema" Chikwe''' is a former [[Nigeria]]n Federal Minister of Aviation. She currently holds the position of National Women Leader of the Nigerian political party PDP.

Chikwe started school at the age of five at [[Aba, Nigeria|Aba]] in what is now [[Abia State]]. She majored in French at the Advanced Teachers’ College, [[Owerri]]. She then attended Queen's College of the [[City University of New York]] where she obtained degrees in French. She obtained a doctorate from the [[University of Nigeria]], Nsukka, in curriculum education. Chikwe became a radio journalist, editor and a publisher. She was chief executive and publisher, Prime Time Limited, publishers of Ash magazine. She has published three books, edited a number of publications and contributed to several books.<ref name=bio>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.onlinenigeria.com/PEOPLE/ad.asp?blurb=65
 |title=Kema Chikwe
 |work=Online Nigeria
 |accessdate=2010-02-16}}</ref>

She became involved in a number of non-governmental organisations, first entering politics in the second republic. Her sympathies were for the National Party of Nigeria, NPN. She later cast her political lot with the NRC, UNCP and now PDP.<ref name=bio/>
She was appointed Minister of Transport, and then of Aviation by President [[Olusegun Obasanjo]], holding office until May 2003. She later went on to run for the Governor of Imo state. In 2009 she became the Nigerian ambassador to Ireland.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/womanofthesun/2004/may/25/womanofthesun-may25-001.htm 
 |title=I'm not Obasanjo's girl – Kema Chikwe 
 |author=Yetunde Oladeinde 
 |date=May 25, 2004 
 |work=Daily Sun 
 |accessdate=2010-02-16 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101101034/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/womanofthesun/2004/may/25/womanofthesun-may25-001.htm 
 |archivedate=January 1, 2007 
}}</ref>

She is also the mother of Nigerian rapper [[Naeto C]].<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.mynaijanews.com/content/view/2094/160/
 |title=The Big Deal about Naeto C	 	 
 |author=Babajide Okonrende	   
 |date=22 August 2008
 |accessdate=2010-02-16}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo 1999-2003}}

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[[Category:University of Nigeria alumni]]
[[Category:Women government ministers of Nigeria]]


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