Amarachi Attamah

Amarachi Calista Attamah-Ugwu  is a Nigerian Chant Performance artist, writer, poet, broadcaster, and an advocate for the preservation of the Igbo language from extinction.^[1][2][3] She is an Igbo language Instructor in the Harvard African Language Program, department of African and African American studies, Harvard University.^[4][5] She is also an Igbo language instructor in the Directed Independent Language Program (DILP), at the Yale center for language study, Yale University.^[6][7][8] . In 2023, she won a grant of $4000 from the Mark and Pearle Clements Internship Award in Syracuse University to support her independent research work: "Museum mapping of Igbo masks in United States and indigenous conceptualization".  She was a presenter in the Enugu State Broadcasting Service,^[9] and the vice president of the Association of Nigerian Authors (Enugu State chapter).^[1] As a chant artist, she has performed in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom (where she completed a four-month performance fellowship with the Royal National Theatre after fifty-two theatre productions of the Three Sisters, A play by Inua Ellams, directed by Nadia Falls).^[10][11] Attamah is the Executive Director of Nwadioramma Concept and founder of OJA Cultural Development Initiative.^[1] She is the author of Tomorrow's Twist (2007), My Broad Daydream (2011), Making A Difference (2014) and Akuko lfo Nnemochie Kooro m (2014), a collection of short stories in lgbo.^[1] In 2021, Attamah co-authored Elephant Tusk with Jeff Unaegbu and others. She is a member of the African Studies Association;^[12] Enugu Literary Society, and Association of Critical Heritage Studies;^[13]