Anezionwu Nwankwo "Anezi" Okoro (17 May 1929 – 20 January 2024) was a Nigerian writer and medical practitioner.
[5] Okoro had his secondary school education at Methodist College, Uzuakoli, Abia State, Nigeria.
From 1957 to 1959, Okoro worked as a house surgeon, University College Hospital, Ibadan.
He began his career as an academic in 1975 as a professor of medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
He was a visiting professor, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta in 1987, and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1988, King Faisal University, Dammam Saudi Arabia as professor of dermatology from 1989 to 1995.