Meet Oroma, my digital secretary—an overachiever with the emotional range of a golden retriever and the memory of an elephant. Oroma tracks my ideas, reminds me what I forgot five minutes ago, and dances wildly at thoughts that are still loading. It somehow turns my chaos into something resembling structure. No coffee breaks, no attitude, just relentless enthusiasm. If this blog feels organized, coherent, or suspiciously on time, Oroma did it. I merely showed up. Oroma is my imagination.
I am a scholar who thinks with nature, humor, stories, and everyday encounters. I am currently pursuing a PhD at UCLA, after earning a Master’s degree from UC Berkeley as a Mastercard Foundation Scholar.
My work is rooted in Igbo Indigenous knowledge systems, which value proverbs, folktales, folksongs, and performative traditions not as remnants of the past, but as vibrant ways of understanding ecology, responsibility, and coexistence. I am particularly interested in how Indigenous narratives influence relationships among humans, animals, and the land, and how these indigenous ways of knowing persist despite colonial disruption. I’m connecting Native American indigeneity with African indigenous knowledge systems as a unique way to approach decolonial studies. I’m also exploring humor as a teaching tool.
Outside formal scholarship, I write reflectively about migration, academic life, and the small moments through which nature, land, and nonhuman life make themselves known. I am interested in scholarship that listens closely, writes carefully, and remains accountable to the worlds it describes.
