Chimaobi Onwukwe

Chimaobi Onwukwe is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies/Igbo, Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria where he has worked for over a decade now. He has served as research scholar on the UNESCO global project on indigenous and marginalized youth in Sub-Saharan Africa, Center for lifelong learning, as well as research fellow, Institute for French Research in Africa (IFRA), and recently, Postdoctoral fellow, South African Research Chair Initiative (SARCHi) on migration, language and social change, Linguistics section, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a recipient of Nigeria’s Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund) research grant for different research projects in 2016, 2018, and 2019. He holds Bachelor’s (First class Hons) and Doctorate degrees in linguistics with over 30 publications in internationally and nationally peer-reviewed outlets. His research interests are formal linguistics (morphology, phonology, semantics), sociolinguistics (of migration), communication, and cultural studies.

Companies

• LUCAS/LAHRI virtual research fellow 2022 University of Leeds (2022)
• University Lecturer Abia State University (2008)
• Visitng Assistant Professor University of Jyväskylä (2022 — 2022)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Cape Town (2019 — 2022)
• 2021 Carnegie Corporation of New York fellow (African Studies Association-ASA) Carnegie Corporation of New York (2021 — 2021)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dubawa (2021 — 2021)
• Research grantee Institute for French Research in Africa(IFRA-Nigeria) (2020 — 2021)
• Postdoctoral Researcher Social Science Research Council (2020 — 2021)
• Research grantee Institute for French research in Africa, (IFRA) Nigeria (2020 — 2020)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Abia State University (2011 — 2015)
• Master of Arts - MA Abia State University (2008 — 2011)
• Bachelor of Arts - BA ( First class hons) Abia State University (2002 — 2006)