Ọlaọcha Nwadiuto Nwabara is a storyteller who uses writing and orality as a medium to represent the narratives of African peoples, cultures, histories, identities, and ways of knowing. Grounded in Black Studies, African Studies and African Diaspora Studies, Dr. Nwabara is an assistant professor of West African Literature and Cultures. Her research, similar to her art, focuses on celebrating and elevating the stories of African descendent people, and thinking about how they represent their communities’ identities through their cultural productions (literature, film, music). Current scholarly and creative writing projects examine global Africa while focusing on Nigerian transnational identities, or the way Nigerians in the world carry their cultures where they go, and how they understand their transforming racial, ethnic, gender and sexual-based lived identities in new worlds. Ultimately, Dr. Nwabara’s passion is to encourage conversations leading to self-love by embodying knowledge of self and community in order to empower self-definition and self-determination.
