Dr J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi

  • Lecturer for Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies (R&T) (Archaeology)

Publications

Prior publications

Article

Stanley J. Onyemechalu, J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi (2025) Nkali and Kolo -collecting in Eastern Nigeria: interrogating colonial collections of ọfϙ and Ikenga , Igbo objects of sovereignty and authority International Journal of Heritage Studies Crossref. (doi: 10.1080/13527258.2025.2496876)

J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi (2025) Expanding Horizons: Contemporary Dynamics and Challenges in Public Archaeology in Nigeria EXARC Journal J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi.

J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi (2024) The rejuvenation of omabe festival and tourism development in Nsukka – Igbo Communities, Southeastern Nigeria Nsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi.

Onyishi Augustine Ejiofor, Ugwuanyi J. Kelechi, Oji Cyriacus Chijioke (2023) Assessing the implications of killer herdsmen in the north and unknown gunmen in the south for the tourism industry in Nigeria IKENGA International Journal of Institute of African Studies Crossref. (doi: 10.53836/ijia/2023/24/2/001)

Stanley Jachike Onyemechalu, J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi (2022) Íhé Ńkètá and Òkè: concepts and practice of indigenous cultural heritage management in the Igbo cultural area of south-eastern Nigeria Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development Crossref. (doi: 10.1108/JCHMSD-12-2020-0177)

Paulinus Okechukwu Agbo, J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi, Malachy Ike Okwueze (2022) Our gods are as powerful as the God of Abraham: analysing the impetus-agitat on the rise of ézéńwànyì in Ǹsúkkà-Ìgbò, Southeastern Nigeria Social Dynamics Crossref. (doi: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2152544)

J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi, Edmund I. Itanyi, Uchenna H. Obieluem (2021) Heritage Ontologies in Nigeria: An Analysis of How Heritage Connects and Disconnects People Journal of African Archaeology Crossref. (doi: 10.1163/21915784-bja10007)

J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi (2021) Time-space politics and heritagisation in Africa: understanding where to begin decolonisation International Journal of Heritage Studies Crossref. (doi: 10.1080/13527258.2020.1795907)

(2021) Contemplating public engagement as an empowerment approach in archaeology and heritage management in Nigeria Nsukka Journal of the Humanities J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi.

(2021) Occupy Nigeria and the Inception of Online Visual Mobilisation of Street Protest Mgbakoigba, Journal of African Studies J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi.

J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi, Chidi Ugwu, Malachy Okwueze (2020) Masking and oral tradition in the re-enactment of village-based hierarchy among the acephalous Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria World Archaeology Crossref. (doi: 10.1080/00438243.2021.1938197)

John Kelechi Ugwuanyi, John Schofield (2018) Permanence, temporality and the rhythms of life: exploring significance of the village arena in Igbo culture World Archaeology Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 0043-8243 (doi: 10.1080/00438243.2018.1473164)

Book Section

J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi (2024) Coloniality and Decoloniality of Heritage Institutions in West Africa Routledge Handbook of Critical African Heritage Studies Crossref Metadata Search. ISBN 9781003025832 (doi: 10.4324/9781003025832-37)

John Schofield, J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi (2023) Heritage and Posthumanism Crossref. (doi: 10.4324/9781003188438-6)

J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi (2022) Archaeology of Igbo land - the pride of our ancestors and the joy of the living Learning about ndi Igbo J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi.

(2020) Human-nature offspringing: indigenous thoughts on posthuman heritag Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi.