Ada Uzoamaka Azodo (born 1947) is a literary scholar. She is Associate Faculty in the Humanities, and Adjunct Professor of African, African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University Northwest.

Life

Azodo gained a diplôme d'études supérieures (DES) from the

University of Dakar Cheikh Anta Diop University (french: Université Cheikh Anta Diop or UCAD), also known as the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, is a university in Dakar, Senegal. It is named after the Senegalese physicist, historian and anthropologist Cheik ...

, a BA from the

University of Ife Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) is a federal government-owned university that is located in the ancient city of Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. The university was founded in 1961 and classes commenced in October 1962 as the University of Ife ...

, and an MA and PhD from the

University of Lagos The University of Lagos, popularly known as UNILAG, is a public research university located in Lagos, Nigeria and was founded in 1962. UNILAG is one of the first generation universities in Nigeria and is ranked among the top universities in th ...

. Azodo has written on

African literature African literature is literature from Africa, either oral ("orature") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African literature can be traced back to at least the fourth century AD. The best-known is the '' ...

, including the work of

Camara Laye Camara Laye (January 1, 1928 – February 4, 1980) was a writer from Guinea. He was the author of ''The African Child'' (''L'Enfant noir''), a novel based loosely on his own childhood, and ''The Radiance of the King'' (''Le Regard du roi''). ...

Mariama Bâ Mariama Bâ (April 17, 1929 – August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, whose two French-language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages. Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim. Her frustration with the fate ...

Aminata Sow Fall Aminata Sow Fall (born 27 April 1941) is a Senegalese-born author. While her native language is Wolof, her books are written in French. She is considered "the first published woman novelist from francophone Black Africa". Margaret Busby, '' Daug ...

Ken Bugul Ken Bugul (born 1947 in Ndoucoumane) is the pen name of Senegalese Francophone novelist Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma.'Bugul, Ken', in Simon Gikandi (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of African Literature''. Routledge; 2002. In the Wolof language, her pen name ...

and

Tsitsi Dangarembga Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker. Her debut novel, '' Nervous Conditions'' (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC i ...

Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe (; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as the dominant figure of modern African literature. His first novel and '' magnum opus'', '' Things Fall Apart'' (1958), occupies ...

Flora Nwapa Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993), was a Nigerian author who has been called the mother of modern African Literature. She was the forerunner to a generation of African women writers, and the first African w ...

and Buchi Emecheta. She is president of the

Igbo Studies Association Igbo may refer to: * Igbo people, an ethnic group of Nigeria * Igbo language, their language * anything related to Igboland, a cultural region in Nigeria See also * Ibo (disambiguation) * Igbo mythology * Igbo music * Igbo art * * Igbo-Ukwu ...

.Benjamin Njoku
US agog as Igbo Studies Association holds 16th confab
''Vanguard'', 31 August 2018. Accessed 1 September 2020.

Works

* ''L'imaginaire dans les romans de Camara Laye''. New York: P. Lang, 1993, 1990 * (ed. with Gay Wilentz) ''Emerging perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo''. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998 * (ed.) ''Emerging perspectives on Mariama Bâ : postcolonialism, feminism, and postmodernism''. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003. * (ed. with Maureen Ngozi Eke) ''Gender and sexuality in African literature and film''. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006. * (ed.) ''Emerging perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall : the real and the imaginary in her novels''. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007 * ''Emerging perspectives on Ken Bugul : from alternative choices to oppositional practices''. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2008 * ''African Feminisms in the Global Arena: Novel Perspectives on Gender, Class, Ethnicity, and Race''. Goldline & Jacobs Publishing, 2019. * (ed. with Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo) ''Resident Alien and Other Stories: An Anthology of Immigrant Voices from Africa and the African Diaspora''. Goldline & Jacobs Publishing, 2020.

References

External links

Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
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