- Nationality
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Affiliation
- English Department, Northeastern Illinois University, United States
- Field of study
- Languages, Linguistics and Literature
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2018 2nd Semester 2016 1st Semester
Projects
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The Power of Injury: Memory, Decolonization, and the Challenges of Modernity in Africa
This book examines the political and social effects of Africa’s prioritization of the experience of colonization in its response to the world, and analyzes the role of Nelson Mandela’s notion of forgiveness in Africa’s inevitable path to modernity. -
Transcultural Affinity: Cosmopolitan Imagination in South Africa
My project examines the idea of cosmopolitan solidarity in South Africa.
Related to this person
publication
Narratives, social justice, and the common good
Eze, Chielozona. 2022. Narratives, social justice, and the common good. In Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency (pp. 23–43). Routledge. https://doi.org/10...
publication
Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy
Eze, Chielozona. 2016. Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.springer.co...
publication
Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa
Eze, Chielozona. 2018. Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa. University of Rochester Press. https://boydellandbrewer.com/race-decol...
public lecture / seminar
‘How things keep falling apart’: adding to the debate on the shaping of the post-colonial African mind - Fellows' seminar by Chielozona Eze
We can’t ignore history but it shouldn’t be a legitimating factor for the present moral position or an excuse to engineer the human condition today.
public lecture / seminar
Chielozona Eze: Forgiveness does not ignore history but takes away vengeance
STIAS Fellow Chielozona Eze during his seminar presentation on 5 May 2016 Can we still salvage Mandela’s legacy?