PUBLICATIONS

“Writing Back to Empire: Anticolonial Petitioning and Decolonization in Postwar British West Africa, 1945-1960,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (July 2025): 1-30.

“Between the Sensuous and Sacred: A Postcolonial Reading of African Spirituality, Sexuality, and the ‘Erotic’ through Mbari Art in Igboland, Nigeria,” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 24, 1 (2025): 63-88.

“‘Let It Be Known that the Feminist Coven Did That’”: Nigerian Women’s Voices and Coalition Against Police Brutality during the 2020 #EndSARS Protests,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 45, 3 (2024): 152-183.

“Space and Colonial Alterity: Interrogating British Residential Segregation, 1899-1919,” Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies 41, 2 (2020): 1-26.

“‘Female Voices on Ink’: The Sexual Politics of Petitions in Colonial Igboland, 1892-1960.” Journal of the Middle East and Africa 10, 4 (2019): 343-366.

“Public Morality and Ethno-Religious Chauvinism in Nigeria: Why History Matters.” Innovare Journal of Social Sciences 7, 1 (2019): 1-6. [with Ngozika Obi-Ani]

“Interpreting Women’s History through Museum Relics: Lessons from the National Museum of Unity, Enugu.” Ikoro: Journal of the Institute of African Studies, 10, 1 (2014): 332-352. [Ihediwa Chimee, Vitalis Nwashindu, Kelechi Ugwuanyi and John Ngonadi]

“The Nigerian Civil War: Implications on Nigeria’s Foreign Policy.” Interdisciplinary Academic Essays 5 (2014): 94-102.

“Colonial History and Documentary Sources: Insights from Southern Nigeria” In Adebayo Oyebade (ed.), Transformations in Africana Studies: History, Theory, and Epistemology. London: Routledge, 2022: 145-164.

“Colonial Urban Centers, Economic Security, Identity Bonding, and the Emergence of Ethnic Associations in Nigeria: 1920 to 1960” In John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji and Rotimi Omosulu (eds.), Fragmented Identities of Nigeria: Sociopolitical and Economic Crises. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022: 163-172. [with Chimee Ihediwa]

“Undressing to Redress: The Sexual Politics of Protests in Colonial and Post-Colonial in Southern Nigeria,” In Gloria Chuku and Susan U. Aham-Okoro, (eds), Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War: Reframing Gender and Conflict in Africa. Washington, DC: Lexington Books, 2020: 23-48.

“Colonial Ideologies and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Example.” In Toyin Falola and Kenneth Kalu, (eds.), Exploitation, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Misrule.  Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018: 277-293.

“African Youth in the Context of 21st Century Cultural Dislocation: A Peep into Nigeria.” In John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji, Kenneth W. Harrow, Eunice E. Omonzejie and Christopher E. Ukhun, (eds.), The Humanities and the Dynamics of African Culture in the 21st Century. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017: 356-367. [with Chimee Ihediwa]

“Woman-to-woman marriage in west Africa: a vanishing tradition of power and agency,” The Conversation Africa, April 6, 2025.

“Mariage entre femmes en Afrique de l'Ouest : une tradition de pouvoir et d'action en voie de disparition,” The Conversation Africa, April 9, 2025.

“What Can I Do With A Black Studies Major?: Exploring the Boundless Possibilities of Black Studies at Portland State University.” PSU Vanguard, February 2025.

“Five-Step Guide to Writing About African Children: A Satirical Homage to Decolonizing Our Minds and Challenging Stereotypes,” The Pacific Sentinel, January 11, 2024 (with Randall Yesmont).

“How to Write About African Women,” The Pacific Sentinel, May 2, 2023.

“How to Write About Nigeria,” Black Perspectives, November 19, 2021.

“Did Europe Bring Homophobia to Africa?” Black Perspectives, October 21, 2021.

“‘Undressing for Redress’”: The Significance of Nigerian Women’s Naked Protests,” The Conversation Africa, September 3, 2020.

“How Igbo Women Used Petitions to Influence British Authorities During Colonial Rule,” The Conversation Africa,August 6, 2020.

“The Strong Women of Igboland,” Africa Rivista, August 20, 2020.