Izuu Nwankwọ

Izuu Nwankwọ is a
theatre scholar, teacher, researcher, and essayist, whose research
interests include African and African diaspora popular culture and
performance. He is a recipient of the African Humanities Program (AHP)
Dissertation Completion Award and Postdoctoral Fellowships in 2012 and
2014. Nwankwọ is also an Iso Lomso Postdoctoral Fellow, Stellenbosch
Institute for Advanced Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa,
and currently (2019-2022) a Georg Forster Postdoctoral Fellow of the
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme at the
Department of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany. His
Igbo language translation of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is
titled Ihe Aghasaa (2007). He has two upcoming book titles, the edited
volume, Stand-up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media
(Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2022) and the co-authored work (with Daniel
Hammett and Laura S. Martin) Beyond Resistance: Humour and Politics in
Africa (Bristol: Bristol UP, 2022).