KALU OGBAA , English
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
The Nigerian
Americans,
Greenwood Press, 2003.
A Century of
Nigerian Literature,
Africa World Press, 2003.
Understanding Things
Fall Apart,
Greenwood Press, 1999
Igbo.
The Rosen Publishing Group, 1995.
The Gong and the
Flute.
Greenwood Press, 1994.
Gods, Oracles and
Divination.
Africa World, 1992.
Folkways in Chinua
Achebe’s Novels,
Zim Pan-African, 1988.
CHAPTERS/SECTIONS
PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:
"An interview with
Chinua Achebe.” Bernth Lindfors, ed. Conversations with Chinua Achebe.
University Press of Mississippi, 1997: 64-75.
"Of Governance,
Revolutions, and Victims." The Gong and the Flute, Chapter 9: 129-147.
"African
Literature and Foreign Students' Modes of Perception." In African
Literature: Links and Challenges, Forthcoming as Chapter 2.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
PUBLISHED:
“Igbo Literature in
English .” The Oxford Companion to African Literature: Oford UP, 2001.
"An African Critic
on African Criticism." Literary Half-Yearly 30,2 (1989): 82-104.
"The Critics of
Chinua Achebe." Commonwealth Quarterly 14 (1989): 19-31.
"Use of English in
Nigerian Schools: Failures and Suggested Remedies." Nigeria
Magazine 55,1 (January-March 1987): 51-57.
"Literature and
Politics in African Literature." Nigeria Magazine 53,3 (1985): 50-57.
"Protest and the
Individual Talents of Three Black Novelists." CLA Journal 35:2 (1991):
159-184.
"The Christian
Moral Frame of Chaucer's The Troilus." Literary Half -Yearly 25:2
(1984): 47-63.
“The Christian Moral
Frame in Chaucer’s The Troilus.” The Literary Half-Yearly 25,2(1984): 47-63.
"An Interview with
Wilson Harris." Caribbean Quarterly 29:2 (1983): 54-62.
"An Interview with
Chinua Achebe." Research in African Literatures 12:1 (1981):
1-13.
"Death in African
Literature." World Literature Written in English 20:2 (1981):
201-213.
“Wole Soyinka: Poems
on Death” Commonwealth Quarterly 5,9(1981): 10-12.
“A Cultural Note on
Okonkwo’s Suicide. ”Kunapipi 3:2(1981):126-134.
“Names and Naming in
Chinua Achebes Novels.” Names: American Name Society 28,4 (1980): 267-289.
"Yeats and the
Irish Revolution." Commonwealth Quarterly (1980): 1-12.
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Writings of Camara
Laye, by Adele King.
An Introduction to the
Writings of Ngugi, by G. D. Killam.
The Four Novels of
Chinua Achebe, by Benedict Njoku.
Igbo Language and
Culture, edited by Ogbalu and Emenanjo.
The Literary
Half-Yearly, edited by Anniah Gowda.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
ORALLY DELIVERED:
"Somalia As Seen
from African Political Perspectives." 1993.
"Women and Their
Roles in African Literature." 1989.
WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP:
"The Role of
African Women in Nation Building." Yale University summer school
workshop titled "Teaching Africa," New Haven, CT, 1996.
"Nigerian Crisis
and the Position of the Igbos." New Haven organizer of Igbos in North
America for a seminar, 1994.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
IN GENERAL:
African; African
American; Afro-Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
CURRENT/FUTURE
SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:
"Race
Consciousness in The Works of Richard Wright," Kucha Literary Magazine
(forthcoming)
DISSERTATION TITLE:
Folkways in Chinua
Achebe's Novels
INSTITUTION GRANTING
PH.D.:
The University of Texas
at Austin