Chimee Adioha

I grew up in Ọrlu and Owere, Nigeria, and now live in Southern California. My research and writing explore Digital Rhetorics of Social Movements, African Queer Archives, Composition Theory and Pedagogy, and Contemporary Anglophone African Literatures.

Black Boy Review (January, 2013)

In 2013, while in my first year of undergraduate school, I founded the literary blog to document African literature and answer to the archival deficit of literary documentation in Nigeria.

Diaspora Africa (June, 2023)

In 2023, I co-founded Diaspora Africa, an independent newsroom and community countering misinformation and bias from global mainstream news on African migration

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

Chimee
Adịọha

I locate my scholarship within the intersections of identity, artistic inheritance, and transnational life across layered geographies.

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

I teach Argument & Research through a social justice lens, informed by multimodal and translingual theories of meaning-making. My strategies explore how social justice pedagogies operate within and beyond institutional classroom spaces.

Portfolio

Projects

Black Boy Review (January, 2013)

Diaspora Africa (June, 2023)

Books

Family Echoes (SLCF, 2014)

Amara (Griots Lounge, 2019)

Speaking Engagements

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

Conference on College Composition & Communication, 2023

Conference on College Composition & Communication, 2024

UCI Black Studies Cluster

Writing Education Across Borders, SLC Utah

Published Writing

Media Appearances

Social Media

Chimee Adịọha

I locate my scholarship within the intersections of identity, artistic inheritance, and transnational life across layered geographies.

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

I teach Argument & Research through a social justice lens, informed by multimodal and translingual theories of meaning-making. My strategies explore how social justice pedagogies operate within and beyond institutional classroom spaces.

Portfolio

Projects

Black Boy Review (January, 2013)

Diaspora Africa (June, 2023)

Books

Speaking Engagements

Research & Presentations

Published Writing

Media Appearances

Social Media

Chimee
Adịọha

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