Dr. Ogbu Chukwuka Nwachukwu

Lecturer I

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Programme English and Literary Studies
Department Department of English and Literary Studies
Faculty Humanities
 Dr. Ogbu Chukwuka Nwachukwu holds the Ph. D of the University of Calabar, Nigeria (2014). He taught briefly at Veritas University, Abuja before joining Alex-Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu- Alike, Nigeria in 2015 where he now serves as Lecturer I in the Department of English and Literary Studies. Dr. Nwachukwu teaches a variety of Literature courses including Literary Theory and Criticism, Gender Studies, African Poetry and Introduction to Poetry. His research interests include Gender and War Studies, Igbo Studies, Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Literary Creativity. He is currently engaged in research on the representations of herder-farmer conflicts in literary creativity in Africa. Dr. Nwachukwu has published quite a few articles in reputable referred, indexed, high impact journals. He was a two term Head of English Unit (2016 –2018); and serves now as the Editor of English Studies Now, the pilot journal of the Department of English and Literary Studies (2019 –).Dr. Nwachukwu is a creative writer and has a number of unpublished manuscripts.

Academic Qualifications

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Institutions attended

degree(s) awarded

year

1

University of Calabar, Nigeria

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D., African Literature & Literary Studies)

2014

2

university of Lagos, Nigeria

master of Arts (M.A., Literature)

2005

3

university of port-harcourt, nigeria

bachelor of arts (b.a., english studies)

1994

research interests

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Gender and War Studies

2

Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Literary Studies

3

Subaltern Studies

4

Igbo Studies

Membership of professional bodies

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1

Member, Reading Association of Nigeria (Ran)

 

2

Member, English Studies Association of Nigeria (ESAN)

Selected publications (MAXIMUM OF 10, WITH LINKS WHERE AVAILABLE)

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1

Nwachukwu, Ogbu Chukwuka. “Faithful Prodigals, Precarious Polity and Re-jigging National Discourse: Readings from Two African Novels,” in JoLaCE: journal of Language and Cultural Education,  volume 7. Issue 2 (November, 2019), pp156–172 . Doi: https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace.2019 -0016

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 Nwachukwu, Ogbu Chukwuka. “’Surugede’ as Music of the Deaf in Emeka Nwabueze’s A Parliament of Vultures and Esiaba Irobi’s Cemetary Road,” in Ikoro :Journal of  Contemporary African Studies. Vol.12 (2019), pp.179-194

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Nwachukwu, Ogbu Chukwuka. “Rekindling the Twilight: Traits as Inter-Text of Re-Incarnation in Two Novels by Igbo Writers,” in ISR: Igbo Studies Review.Number6 (September, 2018), pp.123 –139

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Nwachukwu,  Ogbu Chukwuka. “Third Force as Metaphor for National Regeneration in Festus Iyayi’s Heroes,” in Ikenga: International Journal of Institute of African Studies.Vol.18, No.1 (2018), pp.92 –102 (https://ikengajournal.unn.edu.ng)

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 Nwachukwu, Ogbu Chukwuka & Urama, Evelyn.  “Gender, the Nigerian Civil War and Hard Choices: Nihilism or Absurdism (?) in Isidore Okpewho’s The Last Duty,” in  CLEaR: Culture and Literature in Education and Research 5.2 (September, 2017), (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/clear)  7 –13 DOI: https://10.151/clear –2017 –007

 

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 Evelyn Urama Nwachukwu& Nwachukwu, Ogbu Chukwuka. “Human Trafficking: Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Forced Domestic Labour African Literature,” in JoLacE: Journal of Language and Culture Education.Vol.5, Issue2 (July14, 2017), pp.123 –137 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace.2017 -0023)

 

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 Nwachukwu, Ogbu Chukwuka. ”Gender War and the Impact of Literacy on the Succession Question: A Reading of Ezeigbo’s Children of the Eagle,  Adichie’s  Half of a Yellow Sun and Atta’s Everything Good Will Come,” in JESAN: Journal of the English Scholars Association of Nigeria Vol.18, No.2 (September, 2016),pp.105 –117 (www.englishscholars.org.ng)

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 Nwachukwu,  Ogbu  Chukwuka  &  Enyi,  Amaechi  Uneke. “Matriarchy and the Feminist Agenda: Deconstructing the Logo centric Tenets and Posture of Nigerian Critics/Writers on Feminism,” in

International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. Vol.3, No.3 (July, 2015), pp.234 –250. (URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.3n.3p.42).

 

 

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