Chidi Ugwu
Biographic Data
| ID | 97152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chidi Ugwu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ugwu |
| SIGNATURE | UGWU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nigeria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6540-7763 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Masculinity and health-seeking for human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually transmitted infections in poor urban settlements in sub-Saharan Africa
In sub-Saharan Africa, boys’ and men's health-seeking behaviours are shaped by societal attributes associated with being a man. This scoping review examines how masculinity influences health-seeking regarding Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), among boys and men in poor urban settlements. A systematic search was conducted across Google Scholar, African Journals Online, PubMed, and ProQuest for stu…
Weathering the Hegemons
The threat of a dwindling clientele in a translocal context compelled indigenous healers in southeastern Nigeria to reconstitute their public imagery in ways that mobilize the allures of biomedicine and Christianity (their hegemonic rivals) toward advancing their own practice. They appropriate biomedicine’s technologies and scientific authority to validate indigenous healing yet frame biomedicine’s pharmaceutical treatment as not only shallow but…
Amidst Clinical Dissonance
From the colonial days, the dibia (folk practitioner) in the Igbo-speaking southeast of Nigeria, as elsewhere, has been maligned by hegemonic Christianity and biomedicine. The consequent public reluctance to openly pursue indigenous healing remains a core part of the challenges to patronage the dibia has had to navigate. Drawing empirical materials from the Igbo town of Nsukka, this ethnographic account narrates how the dibia not only resists the…
Masking and oral tradition in the re-enactment of village-based hierarchy among the acephalous Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria
Despite the generally acephalous landscape of the Igbo society of southeastern Nigeria, forms of hierarchy are noticeable, with certain criteria traditionally established to rank some villages higher than or ‘senior’ to others. This paper drew from ethnographic research in two Igbo towns to explore ways in which masks and oral tradition were deployed to advance the ranked orders of lineages and villages. Contemplating this scenario in such a plac…
Refiguring transnational intervention
While anthropological studies of intervention typically argue that interveners usually misunderstand local priorities, rarely do accounts illustrate clearly what this looks like on the ground. Based on my ethnographic observation in Nsukka, a locality in southeastern Nigeria, I narrate how local targets engaged malaria intervention with aims different from those of the interveners. I show that malaria is locally viewed as a routine issue unworthy…
Framing Local Attitudes to a Modern Health Intervention in the Neoliberal Order - Culturalism and Malaria Control in Southeastern Nigeria
Interventionists usually blame cultural factors and traditional attitudes for non-compliance of target populations, a framework Didier Fassin terms as culturalism. Despite their efforts, what the Roll Back Malaria employees find in southeastern Nigeria is a 'troubling' nonchalance towards the programme because target populations' perceptions of malaria differ from the donor/programme perspective. The RBM employees cast the local attitude as cultu…
The (Mis)Fortunes and Prospects of Medical Anthropology in Nigeria
The "Native" as Ethnographer
Researchers have noted how local attitudes that connect research to the external world could affect findings differently in different contexts. How this played out for an indigenous researcher is the new perspective presented in this paper. Although an indigene of the study area, I became an outsider of sorts as soon as I began to show interest in malaria in a way that suggested to locals that the results of my investigation could eventually get …
Indigenous and tribal peoples' health (The Lancet–Lowitja Institute Global Collaboration)
Compliance with Intermittent Presumptive Treatment and Insecticide Treated Nets Use During Pregnancy in Enugu State, Nigeria
Amidst Clinical Dissonance
From the colonial days, the dibia (folk practitioner) in the Igbo-speaking southeast of Nigeria, as elsewhere, has been maligned by hegemonic Christianity and biomedicine. The consequent public reluctance to openly pursue indigenous healing remains a core part of the challenges to patronage the dibia has had to navigate. Drawing empirical materials from the Igbo town of Nsukka, this ethnographic account narrates how the dibia not only resists the…
Refiguring transnational intervention
While anthropological studies of intervention typically argue that interveners usually misunderstand local priorities, rarely do accounts illustrate clearly what this looks like on the ground. Based on my ethnographic observation in Nsukka, a locality in southeastern Nigeria, I narrate how local targets engaged malaria intervention with aims different from those of the interveners. I show that malaria is locally viewed as a routine issue unworthy…
The (Mis)Fortunes and Prospects of Medical Anthropology in Nigeria
Framing Local Attitudes to a Modern Health Intervention in the Neoliberal Order - Culturalism and Malaria Control in Southeastern Nigeria
Interventionists usually blame cultural factors and traditional attitudes for non-compliance of target populations, a framework Didier Fassin terms as culturalism. Despite their efforts, what the Roll Back Malaria employees find in southeastern Nigeria is a 'troubling' nonchalance towards the programme because target populations' perceptions of malaria differ from the donor/programme perspective. The RBM employees cast the local attitude as cultu…
Compliance with Intermittent Presumptive Treatment and Insecticide Treated Nets Use During Pregnancy in Enugu State, Nigeria
Indigenous and tribal peoples' health (The Lancet–Lowitja Institute Global Collaboration)
The "Native" as Ethnographer
Researchers have noted how local attitudes that connect research to the external world could affect findings differently in different contexts. How this played out for an indigenous researcher is the new perspective presented in this paper. Although an indigene of the study area, I became an outsider of sorts as soon as I began to show interest in malaria in a way that suggested to locals that the results of my investigation could eventually get …
The (Mis)Fortunes and Prospects of Medical Anthropology in Nigeria
Refiguring transnational intervention
While anthropological studies of intervention typically argue that interveners usually misunderstand local priorities, rarely do accounts illustrate clearly what this looks like on the ground. Based on my ethnographic observation in Nsukka, a locality in southeastern Nigeria, I narrate how local targets engaged malaria intervention with aims different from those of the interveners. I show that malaria is locally viewed as a routine issue unworthy…
Framing Local Attitudes to a Modern Health Intervention in the Neoliberal Order - Culturalism and Malaria Control in Southeastern Nigeria
Interventionists usually blame cultural factors and traditional attitudes for non-compliance of target populations, a framework Didier Fassin terms as culturalism. Despite their efforts, what the Roll Back Malaria employees find in southeastern Nigeria is a 'troubling' nonchalance towards the programme because target populations' perceptions of malaria differ from the donor/programme perspective. The RBM employees cast the local attitude as cultu…
Masking and oral tradition in the re-enactment of village-based hierarchy among the acephalous Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria
Despite the generally acephalous landscape of the Igbo society of southeastern Nigeria, forms of hierarchy are noticeable, with certain criteria traditionally established to rank some villages higher than or ‘senior’ to others. This paper drew from ethnographic research in two Igbo towns to explore ways in which masks and oral tradition were deployed to advance the ranked orders of lineages and villages. Contemplating this scenario in such a plac…
Amidst Clinical Dissonance
From the colonial days, the dibia (folk practitioner) in the Igbo-speaking southeast of Nigeria, as elsewhere, has been maligned by hegemonic Christianity and biomedicine. The consequent public reluctance to openly pursue indigenous healing remains a core part of the challenges to patronage the dibia has had to navigate. Drawing empirical materials from the Igbo town of Nsukka, this ethnographic account narrates how the dibia not only resists the…
Weathering the Hegemons
The threat of a dwindling clientele in a translocal context compelled indigenous healers in southeastern Nigeria to reconstitute their public imagery in ways that mobilize the allures of biomedicine and Christianity (their hegemonic rivals) toward advancing their own practice. They appropriate biomedicine’s technologies and scientific authority to validate indigenous healing yet frame biomedicine’s pharmaceutical treatment as not only shallow but…
Masculinity and health-seeking for human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually transmitted infections in poor urban settlements in sub-Saharan Africa
In sub-Saharan Africa, boys’ and men's health-seeking behaviours are shaped by societal attributes associated with being a man. This scoping review examines how masculinity influences health-seeking regarding Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), among boys and men in poor urban settlements. A systematic search was conducted across Google Scholar, African Journals Online, PubMed, and ProQuest for stu…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works)