Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba

Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 204.789.1476
Office: 2A45
Email: c.anyaduba@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba studied at the University of Manitoba (PhD 2018) and Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria (MA 2013; BA 2008). His teaching and research interests focus broadly on African and African/Black Diaspora literatures as well as literatures about genocides and mass atrocities. In his scholarship, he explores the cultural representations of genocides and mass atrocities in Africa and is currently researching the representations of the mass starvation of Igbo populations during the Biafra-Nigeria War, 1967-1970. Anyaduba is the author of The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel: Quests for Meaningfulness (2021).

Teaching Areas:

African Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Genocide and Literature, Critical Race Studies, and Cultural Studies

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Recent:

“Children’s Humanitarian Arts and the Genocide in Darfur: Drawing Loss and Atrocity.” Representing Childhood and Atrocity. Edited by Victoria Nesfield and Philip Smith. SUNY Press, 2022, pp. 25-50.  

“The Wounds and Demons of Genocide.” Healing Life Wounds: Restoring Communities After Violence. Edited by Regine King, Masengesho Kamuzinzi, and Simon Gasibirege. Tyndale Academic Press, 2022.

“Africanist Autoethnography: Same Old Bad Joke,” Public Parking, September 14, 2022, http://thisispublicparking.com/posts/africanist-autoethnography-same-old-bad-joke

The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel: Quests for Meaningfulness. Liverpool University Press, 2021.

---, and Benjamin Maiangwa. “Against Memory-as-Remedy to the Traumatic Aftermaths of Nigeria-Biafra War Past: Whither Justice?” Social Dynamics, vol. 46, no. 2, 2020, pp. 277-96.