Pauline Uwakweh facts for kids

Pauline Ada Uwakweh is a talented Nigerian writer and a university professor. She is known for writing books and teaching about literature.

Sometimes, she writes under the name Pauline Onwubiko. In 1988, she published a book called Running for Cover. This book is a children's novel that tells the story of the Nigerian civil war from a child's point of view.

Pauline Uwakweh is a Professor of Literature at North Carolina A&T State University. She mainly studies and teaches about African writing. She also focuses on literature from the African diaspora, which means writings by people of African descent living outside Africa. She is especially interested in books written by women.

She earned her highest degree, a doctorate, from Temple University. Before that, she received her master's degree from the University of Calabar. Her first degree, a bachelor's, was from the University of Port Harcourt. Her special area of study is literature by African and African Diaspora women. She looks at how these writings explore life after colonialism.

Professor Uwakweh helped write a book called Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families (2013). She also edited another book titled African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict (2017). Her writings can be found in many important books and journals about African literature. She is also a Fellow of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program.

Her Life and Education

Pauline Onwubiko was born in a place called Uvuru, in Aboh-Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria. She went to Owerri Girls Secondary School. In 1982, she earned her first university degree in literature from the University of Port Harcourt.

Later, she received a master's degree in English and literary studies from the University of Calabar. She then completed her PhD from Temple University in the United States.

Before joining North Carolina A&T, she taught at other universities. She taught in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She also taught in the Department of English and Literary Studies at the University of Calabar. In 2016, she was honored as a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow. This means she was recognized for her important work connecting with African communities abroad.

Her Writings and Studies

Professor Uwakweh has written many literary criticisms. These are detailed studies and reviews of books by different writers. She has studied works by famous authors like Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, and Chimamanda Adichie. She also examines books by Buchi Emecheta, Nawal El-Saadawi, and Alice Walker. Other writers she has explored include Gloria Naylor, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Cyprian Ekwensi, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Goretti Kyomuhendo.

In 2013, she helped edit a collection of writings about immigration and African families. She also wrote the introduction for this book. Her own chapter in that book looked at how marriage, motherhood, and immigration are shown in the writings of Buchi Emecheta and Chimamanda Adichie.

In 2017, she edited another collection of writings. This one was about war and African women. She also wrote the introduction for this book. In her own part of the book, she discussed Grace Akallo's true story, Girl Soldier. She also looked at Susan Minot's novel Thirty Girls.

Books by Pauline Ada Uwakweh

• Running for Cover. Owerri, Imo State: KayBeeCee Publications. Republished by Africa First Publishers, 2010.
• (edited with Jerono P. Rotich and Comfort O. Okpala) Engaging the diaspora: migration and African families. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013.
• (edited) African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017.