Chika Unigwe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4079259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chika Unigwe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chika |
| FAMILY NAME | Unigwe |
| SIGNATURE | UNIGWE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English, Arts & Sciences, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
White Discomforts, Black Burdens
The basis of white innocence is a strong denial of the notion of racism by deniers, as well as a whitesplaining of the very thing whose existence is denied. The racism-is-relative discourse erases institutional racism and is blind to white privilege. It refuses to engage with history. ‘Personal failings’ ignores the reality of systems that have intentionally favoured a certain demographic; it suggests that everyone has equal access to these syste…
Reading White Innocence across Disciplines in the Low Countries
peer reviewed
The Weight of Love
The day Diana died, my mother made egusi soup for lunch with no salt and no pepper. Dipping my eba in the soup that afternoon was like dipping it into palm oil mixed with water. My aunty, who was v
The Black Messiah
In this essay, Nigerian author Chika Unigwe discusses the challenges involved in writing the biographical novel The Black Messiah (currently published only in Dutch translation as De zwarte messias), which imaginatively retraces the life of Olaudah Equiano. Unigwe’s first attempt to reimagine Equiano took the form of a children’s book in the late 1990s. This project immediately drew her attention to the two primary, antithetical difficulties of w…
Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Leila Aboulela A Link to the Wider World Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 and grew up in Khartoum. Her novel, The Translator, was published to critical acclaim in 1999 and longlisted for the Orange
Cotton Candy
Nigerian Women and Labor Migration
Sugar in My Bowl
Possessing the secret of joy
On the train from Leuven
Borrowed Smile
The Black Messiah
In this essay, Nigerian author Chika Unigwe discusses the challenges involved in writing the biographical novel The Black Messiah (currently published only in Dutch translation as De zwarte messias), which imaginatively retraces the life of Olaudah Equiano. Unigwe’s first attempt to reimagine Equiano took the form of a children’s book in the late 1990s. This project immediately drew her attention to the two primary, antithetical difficulties of w…
Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Leila Aboulela A Link to the Wider World Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 and grew up in Khartoum. Her novel, The Translator, was published to critical acclaim in 1999 and longlisted for the Orange
On the train from Leuven
Borrowed Smile
Borrowed Smile
On the train from Leuven
Possessing the secret of joy
Sugar in My Bowl
Nigerian Women and Labor Migration
Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Leila Aboulela A Link to the Wider World Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 and grew up in Khartoum. Her novel, The Translator, was published to critical acclaim in 1999 and longlisted for the Orange
Cotton Candy
The Weight of Love
The day Diana died, my mother made egusi soup for lunch with no salt and no pepper. Dipping my eba in the soup that afternoon was like dipping it into palm oil mixed with water. My aunty, who was v
The Black Messiah
In this essay, Nigerian author Chika Unigwe discusses the challenges involved in writing the biographical novel The Black Messiah (currently published only in Dutch translation as De zwarte messias), which imaginatively retraces the life of Olaudah Equiano. Unigwe’s first attempt to reimagine Equiano took the form of a children’s book in the late 1990s. This project immediately drew her attention to the two primary, antithetical difficulties of w…
White Discomforts, Black Burdens
The basis of white innocence is a strong denial of the notion of racism by deniers, as well as a whitesplaining of the very thing whose existence is denied. The racism-is-relative discourse erases institutional racism and is blind to white privilege. It refuses to engage with history. ‘Personal failings’ ignores the reality of systems that have intentionally favoured a certain demographic; it suggests that everyone has equal access to these syste…
Reading White Innocence across Disciplines in the Low Countries
peer reviewed
Art (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · White (mutation (3 works) · Chemistry (2 works) · Food Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)