Chimee Adioha

Chimee
Adịọha

I grew up in our hometown in Ụmụezeagụ and Owere, Nigeria, and now live in Southern California. My research and writing explore Rhetorics of Social Movements, African Queer Archives, Composition Theory & Pedagogy, and Contemporary Anglophone African Literatures. My work has been supported by The Imagining America Consortium, UC Irvine Humanities Center, and The Alec Glasser Center.

Positionality

I locate my scholarship within the intersections of identity, narratology and transnationalism.

I am a Doctoral Candidate of Rhetoric and Composition at the University
of California, Irvine.

I teach "Argument & Research" from a Rhetoric lens. My teaching strategies investigate how social justice pedagogies might operate within and beyond traditional classroom spaces.

Portfolio

Projects

2025: Mmekorita Archive 
2025: The Okwuchukwu Fund
2023: Diaspora Africa
2015: Owerri Children’s Book Festival
2013: Black Boy Review

Books

Family Echoes (SLCF, 2014)
Amara (Griots Lounge, 2019)

Speaking Engagements

Research Talk on New Methodologies for Teaching a Social Justice-Themed Classroom (2026)
Guest Lecture on Hashtag Activism & Liberation Technology in a Digital Age (2026)
Translating Ngũgĩ | Celebration of the Life and Work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (2025)
Saskatoon Open Door Society of Canada (2023)
Queering the Limits of Free Speech (2023)
Lagos Poetry Festival (2023)
GLAAD Hangouts (2022)
Black Consciousness Festival (2021)
Abuja Literary Festival (2020)
Author’s talk (2019)
Ake Arts & Book Festival (2013)

Research & Presentations

African Literature Association, 2026
Writing Education Across Borders, SLC Utah, 2024
Conference on College Composition & Communication, 2024
UCI Black Studies Cluster, 2024
Conference on College Composition & Communication, 2023

Published Writing

Fiction: House on the Rock, Agbowo, October, 2025
Essay: “The Depersonalisation of African Migrant Women’s Stories: Exploring Pathways for Accelerating Action” Migrant Women Press, March 2025
Paper: Uwaeme, M., Adioha, C., Adioha, J., & Ifegbo, M. (2022). The Morphological Patterns of Derivation in Onicha-Mbaise Variety of the Igbo Language. Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, 5(3), 173–182. Retrieved from https://journalajl2c.com/index.php/AJL2C/article/view/99

Media Appearances

MA: “Allyship needs to be loud”: Afrobeats’ uneasy relationship with queerness
IMAGINING AMERICA: Announcing the 2025-2026 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellows 
IJNET – Amplifying Stories of African Migrants
PUNCH Nigeria: Before Stardom with Chimee Adioha
JAMLAB AFRICA: Q&A: Chimee Adioha, co-founder of Diaspora Africa
MINORITY AFRICA: It is As if We Don’t Exist
URBANET: How a Misdirected Land Use Law Disregards Coastal Dwellers’ Rights
VANGUARD Nigeria: Amplifying African Narratives through Communication & Literature
OKAY AFRICA: Africa’s Bookstagrammers are Carving Out a Space for the Continent’s Authors
CULTURE CUSTODIAN: 6 Nigerian Bookstagrammers Putting African Talent on The Map
AFRO READER: In Conversation with Chimee Adioha
MINORITY AFRICA: Sex Only for Voters

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