McMaster University | Department of English & Cultural Studies | PhD Student
Research Areas: African Literature, Decolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, and Environmental Humanities. |
Samuel Chinaza Ikueze (he/him) is a PhD student of English & Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Canada. He is interested in African literature, decolonial studies, cultural studies, and environmental humanities. Ikueze’s research combines his knowledge of African literature and politics, Igbo Indigenous knowledge (of Southeastern Nigeria), cultural studies, and decoloniality. He has a publication in African Journalism Studies and other ongoing projects. His PhD thesis explores alternative modes of relations between humans and animals in the post-Anthropocene. Outside his studies, Ikueze is also a poet with several creative publications and has collaborated in curating other artists. He functions as a research assistant in this project.
Selected Publications
Ikueze, Samuel Chinaza, and Onyemuche Anele Ejesu. “Journalism and the Representation of Truth in the Nigerian Postcolonial Literature.” African Journalism Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, July 2022, pp. 10–29.
Ikueze combines postcolonial and journalism criticism to evaluate the place of journalists and journalism in Nigerian literature, focusing on the works of erstwhile journalists, Arrows of Rain (Okey Ndibe) and Oil on Water (Helon Habila).