About My Research
Chinedu Chidịebere Ezebube's Ph.D Thesis is on gender identities in post-colonial Igbo chieftaincy titles. His work historicises chieftaincy titles in Enugwu-Ukwu Igbo community of Anambra State, Nigeria. He also interrogates the construction of maleness and femaleness in the titles, and the gender power dynamics inherent in the titles. His study looks at chieftaincy titles as a form of naming through which gender identities are constructed. He uses a blend of the theoretical tenets of Michelle Lazar's Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis and Uzoamaka Azodo's Di-feminism to explore how post-colonial Igbo chieftaincy titles serve as discourses through which gender differentiated power and dominance can be discursively (re)produced and/or counter-resisted.