Chichi Ayalogu

PhD candidate writing and reading about documentary, humanitarian visual culture, and postcoloniality. but first, I love me my children. #biafra

[Chichi Ayalogu @itsjustchichi]

Happy to share that my article Biafran humanitarian images is now published in @Routledge_JPW … this has been years in the making, and wouldn’t have been possible w/out my beloved supervisors @brouillettese & Franny Nudelman, and friend @RaberRichard https://t.co/Qxd2SaPWzN

[Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese]

We're thrilled Annie McClanahan will be a Socialist Seminar speaker at Carleton (@cu_peco) in September

[Chichi Ayalogu @itsjustchichi]

@kennethbrays I want to hear more!!

[Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese]

sharing the cover designed by Courtney Baker ❤️https://t.co/jleJKDDpCy

[Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese]

my book forthcoming Oct 2026 has a catalogue page thingy!!!

blurbs note its focus on "the painful truths of literary life" and "the exploitation of creative aspiration"

😊

https://t.co/jleJKDDpCy

[Chichi Ayalogu @itsjustchichi]

Fantastic work, Richard. Scholars working at the intersection of war trauma, vernacular archives, and visual culture will find this particularly useful. I urge you to check it out

[Richard R @RaberRichard]

Thrilled to share my first publication of 2026, "'What happened? Where are they?' Producing Counter-Knowledge in the Aftermath of Atrocity" for @thirdtext_.

It is free to read and open access.

https://t.co/bUtbSRQhw5

[Richard R @RaberRichard]

Thrilled to share my first publication of 2026, "'What happened? Where are they?' Producing Counter-Knowledge in the Aftermath of Atrocity" for @thirdtext_.

It is free to read and open access.

https://t.co/bUtbSRQhw5

[Richard R @RaberRichard]

An absolutely brilliant exhibition and collaboration between @itsjustchichi and artist Emmanuel Nwogbo II. Check it out!

[Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese]

very cool digital exhibition -- a collaboration between artist Emmanuel Nwogbo II & @itsjustchichi (who has been doing amazing research on Biafra in the cultural imagination) ❤️‍🔥

[ASAP/Journal @ASAP_Journal]

"The nation once reliant on its own objectification is infinitely cast into this role: a self-devouring ouroboros, the paradoxical snake endlessly chasing its tail..." writes @itsjustchichi in our newest review on Biafran history, visual culture & conflict
https://t.co/A7QAxRfFoC

[madeline lane-mckinley @la_louve_rouge_]

I learned a lot from spending time with young people, radical caretakers & teachers, who encounter this problem day to day: that the “idea of children” so often stands in the way of solidarity. Children are so much more than merely rhetorical figures. They deserve the world.

[madeline lane-mckinley @la_louve_rouge_]

Sometimes such writing has been explicitly anti-child—but even in the name of “protecting” or “standing up for” children, the abstraction of children is a defining characteristic of adult supremacy.

[madeline lane-mckinley @la_louve_rouge_]

Writing this book involved pushing back against the long history of adults writing about & fetishizing children as ideas. So much discourse about children is profoundly disconnected from the actual lives of children, and those doing the political work of showing up for them.

[Richard R @RaberRichard]

Delighted to share the publication my article "Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa" in @JSAS_Editors It is open access and freely available at the link below.

https://t.co/SBMUTEu9Zt

[Chichi Ayalogu @itsjustchichi]

Another fantastic piece!

[Richard R @RaberRichard]

Thrilled to share the open access publication of my newest article, "A Biography of Bones: Tracing the Shifting Meanings of Griqua Remains from Their 1961 Exhumation to the Present" coauthored with David Morris in @Genealogy_MDPI.

https://t.co/C8qlSGnUle

[Chichi Ayalogu @itsjustchichi]

Great work, Richard! Well-deserved 👏🏾

[Richard R @RaberRichard]

I am delighted to share that my PhD dissertation has been selected as the winner of the 2025 @IndianaUniv Graduate School Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts category.

[Chichi Ayalogu @itsjustchichi]

@brouillettese LOL. My son insists on being carried 24/7, but pushes my mouth away because my “breath smells”… so amazing!!

[Richard R @RaberRichard]

For those of you in Kimberley and the Northern Cape, I’d like to extend an invitation to my public lecture at @MySPU on Thursday at 1 PM.

See you there!

[Chichi Ayalogu @itsjustchichi]

@UcheUmezurike @CanadianPoets Beautiful 😍

[Order Black Passport||Paul Akpomuje @AkpomujeP]

“My father is in the room, unmoving, like an indoor plant.” This poem, “Unmoving” is moving me.

Poignant. Traumatized Masculinity. What an amazing poem by @UcheUmezurike