Purity Ada Uchechukwu

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Purity Ada Uchechukwu (born 1971) is a Nigerian Hispanist, an associate professor of Spanish at the Department of Modern European Languages, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Her linguistic research focuses on the Afro-Hispanic people, Spanish as a second language and its role in Africa and the United States. Uchechukwu is one of the motivating forces behind Hispanist scholarship in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Purity Ada Uchechukwu was born in Lagos, Nigera, in 1971. [3] After graduating with a master's degree in Spanish from the University of Bamberg, she obtained a doctorate from the university in 2010, focusing on philology of Romance languages and writing her thesis on "A Corpus-Based Analysis of Igbo and Spanish Copula Verbs." [4] [5] [6]

Career

Uchechukwu returned to Nigeria to work as a Spanish professor at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, in its Department of Modern European Languages. [4] [5] [7] She is the editor of the university's peer-reviewed Journal of Modern European Language and Literatures. [8] [9]

Her research focuses on teaching Spanish as a second language and on Spanish in the United States. In 2014, she contributed to the Instituto Cervantes' book La enseñanza del español en África Subsahariana ("The Teaching of Spanish in Sub-Saharan Africa"), writing on the status of the Spanish language in Nigeria. [5] She is a member of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese and serves on the board of Open Journals Nigeria. [7] [10] Her role as a Hispanist researcher in an English-speaking sub-Saharan African country distinguishes her, as she explores in her 2017 paper "Spanish in Sub-Saharan Africa: Whither Nigeria?" [11] [12]

She is married to Chinedu Uchechukwu, a fellow professor at Nnamdi Azikiwe University. [1] [13]

Selected works

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