Uchenna Onuzulike

Biographic Data

ID4052238
NAMEUchenna Onuzulike
GIVEN NAMESUchenna
FAMILY NAMEOnuzulike
SIGNATUREONUZULIKE U
AFFILIATIONSHoward University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Perceptions of Fake News Among HBCU Undergraduate Students

    Open AccessUchenna Onuzulike, Sudan Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of African American Studies2026

  • Social media within the contexts of public sphere and civic engagement

    Uchenna OnuzulikeARTICLEJournal of International…2022

    YouTube readers' comments have evolved into the public sphere, allowing readers to participate in the public sphere and civic engagement. This case study explores public reactions generated from a YouTube video, 'My Oga at the Top', which became viral as a result of the inability of Mr. Obafaiye Shem to name the website of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). He claimed the information about the website can only come from his top…

  • Ethnicity and Belonging among Young Igbo in the United States

    Uchenna OnuzulikeARTICLEHoward Journal of Communications2021

    This theoretical and empirical study examines how second-generation Igbo (SGI) young adults in the United States articulate their ethnic identity within the framework of theorizing beyond the West. Identity struggles of SGI are fluid and inevitable and, therefore, deserve close attention in this ever-changing environment. This study advances the critical intercultural communication concept of coculturation and ethnic communication theory by eluci…

  • A critical analysis of the Nollywood film Osuofia in London

    Uchenna OnuzulikeARTICLEJournal of International and…2017References: 5

    This article analyzes Nigeria’s Nollywood film Osuofia in London [Ogoro, K. (Producer & Director). (2003/2004). Kingsley Ogoro Productions] to understand how the film synthesizes African and Western cultural identities via the prisms of hybridity and postcolonial theory. The paper uses a critical approach within the contexts of three tenets (African, Western, and hybrid) to read the film. The analysis resulted in five themes: African/folk belief …

  • A critical reading of Blood Diamond (2006) in the context of transnationalism

    Uchenna OnuzulikeARTICLEAfrican Identities2015References: 9

    Between 1992 and 1999, Sierra Leone was engaged in a civil war which was blamed primarily on a 'scramble for diamonds.' This paper critically analyzes the related film Blood Diamond (2006) in order to locate the portrayal of Sierra Leone and of Africa in general in the context of transnationalism. In addition, the analysis seeks to understand how Africans and Westerners contributed to conflict diamonds. Reading the film via transnationalism indic…

  • Discussing the Igbo language on the Igbo Internet radio

    Uchenna OnuzulikeARTICLEJournal of African Media Studies2014

    There is a growing concern about the decline and possible extinction of the Igbo language. The Igbo are primarily located in the south-eastern part of Nigeria. This study analysed four interviews on Igbo Radio, an Igbo Internet radio station, to ascertain how Internet radio is being utilized in discussing the decline of the Igbo language. Drawing on ethnolinguistic vitality theory, this qualitative study triangulates four selected interviews on I…

  • Nollywood video film’s impact on Nigerian and other African environments and cultures

    Uchenna OnuzulikeARTICLEExplorations in Media Ecology2014Cited by: 1

    This article examines how Nollywood video films impact Nigerian and other African cultures and environments by connecting an oral culture such as Nigeria quickly through the literate phase to membership in the global village. It also contributes to McLuhan’s hot–cool model by applying it to Nollywood video films, which is complex because the term ‘video film’ connotes a combination of cool (i.e., television) and hot (i.e., cinema) media. Applying…