Chimee Adioha

I grew up in Ọrlu and Owere, Nigeria and now live in Southern California. I am interested and currently working on research projects around Digital Rhetorics of Social Movements, Composition Theory & 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 Africa.

Diaspora Africa (June, 2023)

In 2023, I co-founded Diaspora Africa, an independent media organization using storytelling & digital technology to mobilize African migrant voices.

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

My mother’s art & my uncle’s politics of concentricity shaped
my understanding of education.

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

I also teach Argument & Research through a social justice lens. My teaching positionality derives from theories of multimodality and translingualism. I have researched on the value for social justice pedagogies outside of traditional classroom spaces.

Portfolio

Projects

Black Boy Review (January, 2013)

Diaspora Africa (June, 2023)

Books

Family Echoes (SLCF, 2014)

Amara (Griots Lounge, 2019)

Speaking Engagements

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

My mother’s art & my uncle’s politics of concentricity shaped my understanding of education.

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

I also teach Argument & Research through a social justice lens. My teaching positionality derives from theories of multimodality and translingualism. I have researched on the value for social justice pedagogies outside of traditional 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

My mother’s art & my uncle’s politics of concentricity shaped
my understanding of education.

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