Outputs (11)

There Was a Campus: Nostalgia, Memory and the Formation of University of Nigeria “Campus Kids” Online Communities (2023)
Journal Article
Egbunike, L. U. (2023). There Was a Campus: Nostalgia, Memory and the Formation of University of Nigeria “Campus Kids” Online Communities. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 35(3), 311-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2237929

The ceremonial opening of the University of Nigeria on 7 October 1960 formed part of Nigeria’s independence celebrations, linking the destiny of the institution to the nation. Seven years later, the outbreak of the Nigeria–Biafra war (1967–70) instig... Read More about There Was a Campus: Nostalgia, Memory and the Formation of University of Nigeria “Campus Kids” Online Communities.

Nigerian Campus Forms (2023)
Journal Article
Coetzee, C., & Egbunike, L. U. (2023). Nigerian Campus Forms. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 35(3), 249-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2238200

Introduction: Speculative & Science Fiction: What is Past & Present … & What is Future? (2022)
Book Chapter
Egbunike, L. U., & Nwankwo, C. (2022). Introduction: Speculative & Science Fiction: What is Past & Present … & What is Future?. . Boydell & Brewer. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800102897.001

For this fascinating edition of African Literature Today, it is useful to suggest this guiding broad picture as heuristic genre marking. The speculative is trapped in the realm of suggestion. It is a half-birth in terms of a tactile reality. Science... Read More about Introduction: Speculative & Science Fiction: What is Past & Present … & What is Future?.

The Burden of Exile (2021)
Book Chapter
Egbunike, L. U. (2021). The Burden of Exile. In A. Adebajo (Ed.), The Pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets, and Philosophers (488-499). Manchester University Press

Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta’s writing can be described as a form of creative expression centred on experiential knowledge. The biographical details of Emecheta’s life are present at the inception of her career as a novelist, visible in her debut n... Read More about The Burden of Exile.

With Chigozie Obioma (2021)
Other
Egbunike, L. U. (2021). With Chigozie Obioma. [Interview]

ALT 39: Speculative and Science Fiction (2021)
Book
Egbunike, L. U., & Nwankwo, C. (Eds.). (2021). ALT 39: Speculative and Science Fiction. Boydell and Brewer Limited. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800102897

Re-Presenting Africa in Young Adult Speculative Fiction: The Ekpe Institution in Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch (2021)
Book Chapter
Egbunike, L. U. (2021). Re-Presenting Africa in Young Adult Speculative Fiction: The Ekpe Institution in Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch. In ALT 33 Children's Literature & Story-telling (141-155). Boydell & Brewer. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782046028.013

Narrating the Past: Orality, History & the Production of Knowledge in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017)
Book Chapter
Egbunike, L. U. (2017). Narrating the Past: Orality, History & the Production of Knowledge in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In E. N. Emenyonu (Ed.), A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (15-29). Boydell & Brewer

A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural existence.Easily the leading and most engaging voice of... Read More about Narrating the Past: Orality, History & the Production of Knowledge in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

One-Way Traffic: Renegotiating the ‘Been-To’ Narrative in the Nigerian Novel in the Era of Military Rule (2014)
Journal Article
EGBUNIKE, L. U. (2014). One-Way Traffic: Renegotiating the ‘Been-To’ Narrative in the Nigerian Novel in the Era of Military Rule. Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, 45(1), 217-232. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401211093_014

Snapshots of the Botswana Nation: Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures & Other Botswana Village Tales as a National Project (2013)
Book Chapter
Egbunike, L. U. (2013). Snapshots of the Botswana Nation: Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures & Other Botswana Village Tales as a National Project. . Boydell & Brewer

My work was always tentative because it was always so completely new (…) it brought all kinds of people, both literate and semi-literate, together, and it did not really qualify who was who — everyone had a place in my world. (Head 1977, 45)Bessie He... Read More about Snapshots of the Botswana Nation: Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures & Other Botswana Village Tales as a National Project.