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Chukudi V. Izeogu is Emeritus professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Community and Regional Planning at Alabama A&M University (AAMU), Normal, Alabama, USA with over thirty years of experience in academics and planning practice. He served as chair (1998-2012) of AAMU planning programs and chair of Geography Department, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria (1982 – 1990). Previously, he was Executive Secretary of Port Harcourt Metropolitan Planning Authority and Town Planning Officer, Rivers State Ministry of Land and Housing, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Professor Izeogu was born in Ede in the Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA) and completed his elementary school in the neighboring town of Obite before pursuing post primary education at Ihie in the present Abia State. Thereafter, he pursued his college degree at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in the nineteen sixties where he majored in Geography with special interest in geomorphology. His study at UNN exposed him to field work in many parts of Ali Ogba with particular focus on the physical geography and drainage characteristics of the then Ahoada Division and other parts of south east Nigeria.Apart from spending most of his years as a young man in Ali Ogba, his tenure as an urban and regional planning officer in Port Harcourt soon after the Nigerian civil war and later as an academic in the University of Port Harcourt in the nineteen eighties provided him opportunities for more in-depth understanding of Ali Ogba communities and other parts of Rivers State. Although Professor Izeogu has been living in the USA since the nineties, he has kept abreast of development of the communities in Ali Ogba through frequent visits and research on Ali Ogba environment and sustainable development issues. Currently, his interest is focused on strategies that will ensure future development of Ali Ogba through meaningful civic engagement and economic empowerment of its youth to ensure future stability and socio-economic development of the communities.