African Humanities Research and Development Circle (AHRDC)
Main Research Focus: African Humanities; African Studies; Development and Policy Studies
Other areas of research interest:
Egodi Uchendu: Women’s history, Masculinities, Conflict situations, Islam in Eastern Nigeria and Sustainable waste management.
Emmanual Johnson Ibuot: African Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy of Literature, Cultural Agency and Development.
Chukwuemeka C. Agbo: Labour History, Diaspora Studies, Subaltern Studies.
Chisom Uchendu: Parody advertising as a tool for social commentary, with a focus on Nigeria’s current societal issues.
Felicia Priest: Missiology, Christian conversion to Islam, Witchcraft accusations, and Gender-based violence.
Amuche Nnabueze: Art and Humanities; Environmental anthropology.
Peter Memga Kertyo: Democratic elections, Electoral violence, Security studies and Nigeria’s external relations.
Samuel Okafor: Political and medical Sociology, Policy studies, Colonial and post-colonial studies, indigenous people, Demography, Gender Studies and Environmental Studies.
Ogechukwu Ikem: Social and Economic History; Gender Studies.
Most recent research project: Women and resistance in colonial societies.
A maximum of 7 other current/completed research projects:
- Navigating Archives in Nigeria: Experiences, Opportunities, and Advancements
- Citizenships in Africa
- Ableism in Africa: Multidimensional Approaches (2021/2022)
- Nigeria’s Resource Wars (2019/2020)
- Witchcraft: Meanings, Factors and Practices (2019)
- Patterns of Islamic Dawah in Eastern Nigeria (2016-17)
Name of the coordinator: Professor Dr. Egodi Uchendu, AvHF, FHSN, FRDA, MNAL
UNN email address of the RG: ahrdc@ahrdc.academy & ahrdc.unn@gmail.com, ahrdc@unn.edu.ng
UNN email address of the coordinator: egodi.uchendu@unn.edu.ng
Current webpage of the RG: www.ahrdc.academy https://www.unn.edu.ng/african-humanities-research-and-development-circle-ahrdc/
Phone number of the RG: 0817 099 5050
Phone number of the coordinator: 08039617898
Base Faculty/Institute /Centre of the RG: Faculty of Arts
Department of the coordinator: History and International Studies
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List and brief profiles of members:
Egodi Uchendu is a Professor of History and International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria (FHSN) and of the Royal Doyen Academy (FRDA). She holds several awards and research grants and has served on different academic Boards. Her latest publications include: Islam in the Niger Delta, 1890-2017: A Synthesis of the Accounts of Indigenes and Migrants (Klaus Shwarz, 2018) that won the African Studies and Research Forum (ASRF) 2020 runner-up book prize; Nigeria’s Resource Wars (Vernon Press, 2020); Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies (Lexington Books, 2021 & 2023); Nigeria’s 2019 Democratic Experience (De Gruyter, 2022), and Witchcraft in Africa: Meanings, Factors, and Practices (Cambridge Scholars, 2023). Professor Uchendu coordinates the #Don’t-Litter-Initiative, a sustainable waste management project for University of Nigeria Nsukka campus with funding from the German Federal Foreign Office. Additional information about her career is available on www.egodiuchendu.com and orcid.org/0000-0002-8305-4682.
Emmanuel Johnson Ibuot is a midcareer academic with parallel teaching appointments at Humanities Unit, School of General Studies, and Department of Philosophy, both at University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). In 2009, he was a Junior AvH Fellow/Researcher at Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin. His research interests are in African Studies (African Religion and Philosophy), Philosophy of Literature, and in Cultural Agency and Development.
Chukwuemeka Agbo holds a PhD from The University of Texas at Austin. His research explores the politics of labor mobilization in Eastern Nigeria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the global and local dynamics that shaped labor demand and supply during this period. Dr. Agbo serves as Vice President for Research and Publications of the African Humanities Research and Development Circle (AHRDC), and the Managing Editor of AHRDC’s flagship journal, Journal of African Humanities and Research Development (JAHRD). Please, visit www.ahrdc.academy to learn more about Dr. Agbo’s scholarship.
Chisom Uchendu holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Communication Design from the University of Nigeria (2015), and an MFA degree in Communication Art and Design also from UNN. She is a faculty member in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, where she has taught courses in Art History and Visual Communication Design since 2018. With particular interest in Brand Identity Design, Uchendu has worked as a freelance graphic designer since 2016, producing client work as well as personal projects. Uchendu’s research engages the use of parody advertising as a tool for social commentary. Aside from her brand identity and academic research interests, Uchendu’s career also explores professional textile design, especially in the area of digital pattern design. To learn more about Uchendu’s scholarship and view some of her design portfolio, please visit chisomuchendu.com.
Chinyere Felicia Priest is a Lecturer at West Africa Theological Seminary, Lagos (WATS). She earned her PhD in Theological Studies (2018) from Africa International University, Nairobi in 2018. Chinyere taught in the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at WATS and worked as a Teaching Fellow for four years at Africa International University. She recently published The Conversion of Igbo Christians to Islam: A Study of Religious Change in a Christian Heartland (Langham: 2020). Dr. Priest is a member of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology and Review of Religious Research.
Amuche Nnabueze teaches sculpture, cultural and creative arts at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, having obtained a PhD in Art Education in 2017. She is passionate about deploying various artistic processes to speak to the sustainability of the environment. She also promotes practices to mitigate the adverse impacts of human activities on the environment. She founded the Sculpted Basket Project in 2008 where she educates pupils, students, administrators, mothers, traders and others about sustainable environmental concepts through socially engaged activities. Amuche is a multi-skilled, experienced, reliable and adaptable creative with several years of socially focused art practice. She has over fifteen years of experience in higher education administrative and academic environments. In the past four years, she has become increasingly involved in mobilizing parents and youths for Creative Climate work. She is a pioneer and 2021 Fellow of the prestigious Climate Parent Fellowship of the Parents for Future and Our Kids Climate.
Samuel Okechi Okafor is a PhD student in Environment and Demography in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He uses multi methodological research skills in the areas of social sciences and humanities.
e-mail: samuelokey200@gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0001-8584-5616
Ogechi Akure Ikem is a lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She holds B.A. (Nig.), M.A. (Nig.) and currently doing her PhD. She specializes in socio-economic history with focus on women.
Members google scholar citation links:
Professor Dr. Egodi Uchendu: www.scholar.google.com/egodi+uchendu&oq=egodi
Members research gate links:
Professor Dr. Egodi Uchendu: www.researchgate.net/profile/Egodi_Uchendu
10 key publications of the RG from 2019 till date:
- Egodi Uchendu, Elizabeth Onogwu & Chukwemeka Agbo (eds.),Witchcraft in Africa: Meanings, Factors & Practices (Cambridge Scholars, 2023)
- Egodi Uchendu (ed.), Nigeria’s Resource Wars (Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, 2020). https://vernonpress.com/book/892
- Egodi Uchendu, “Trends in Islamic Propagation (Da‘wah) in Parts of Eastern Nigeria,” Africa. N.S. IV/2 (2022): 5-28.
- Egodi Uchendu, Amuche Nnabueze & Elizabeth Onogwu. “Locked Down during the Lockdown.” Alliance for African Partnership Perspectives 1 (2021): 101-106. jhu.edu/article/837369. (Open Access).
- Egodi Uchendu & Samuel Okafor, “Summary of Professor B.I.C. Ijomah’s Works,” Public Policy Inquiry (PPI) 1, no. 1 (2021): 69-80.
- Egodi Uchendu & Chinyere Felicia Priest, “The Stages of Igbo Conversion to Islam: An Empirical Study,” in Review of Religious Research 62 (2020): 121–132, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13644-020-00402-5.
- Egodi Uchendu & Chukwuemeka Agbo, ““The Coast ought to pay for the Development of the Interior:” Colonial Foundations of Dysfunctional Federalism, Unproductivity, and Federal Allocation in Nigeria,” for AM Digital, U.K. https://www.africaandthenewimperialism.amdigital.co.uk/, 2022 [Commissioned].
- Chukwuemeka Agbo,” Between Slaves and Slave Owners: The Abolition and Resource Wars in Colonial Eastern Nigeria,” in Egodi Uchendu, Nigeria’s Resource Wars (Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, 2020), 33-54.
- Chukwuebuka Omeje and Chisom Uchendu, “The Domains of Resource Wars in Nigeria,” in Egodi Uchendu (ed.), Nigeria’s Resource Wars (Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, 2020), 55-72.
- Emmanuel Johnson Ibuot, “Disharmony in Nigeria: Towards a Deconstruction of its Ideological Foundations,” in Egodi Uchendu (ed.), Nigeria’s Resource Wars (Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, 2020), 135-157.
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