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About Ada Udechukwu
Ada Udechukwu (born 1960) is a Nigerian artist and poet associated with the Nsukka group. Born in the city of Enugu, Nigeria, Udechukwu is the daughter of an Igbo father and an American mother. When the Eastern part of Nigeria attempted to break out of Nigeria to form what was called the Republic of Biafra, this led to a civil war in Nigeria which was generally called the Biafran war of 1967β70. Due to the war, she and her siblings took refuge in Michigan USA with their mother while their father stayed back in Nigeria. They remained in Michigan until 1971, a year after the end of the Biafran War. She studied under the author Chinua Achebe, earning her bachelor's degree in English and literature at the University of Nigeria.
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βIn my opinion, most professionals also become extinct not because they do the wrong things, but because they keep doing what used to be the right things for too longβ
βFor the greater part of my life, I have struggled against internal and external boundaries, journeying in search of a space that continually eluded me. A space where I might be free of the often confusing and contradictory signals that a biracial person faces. It took me time to realize that the place I was looking for lies within.β
About Ada Udechukwu
Ada Udechukwu (born 1960) is a Nigerian artist and poet associated with the Nsukka group. Born in the city of Enugu, Nigeria, Udechukwu is the daughter of an Igbo father and an American mother. When the Eastern part of Nigeria attempted to break out of Nigeria to form what was called the Republic of Biafra, this led to a civil war in Nigeria which was generally called the Biafran war of 1967β70. Due to the war, she and her siblings took refuge in Michigan USA with their mother while their father stayed back in Nigeria. They remained in Michigan until 1971, a year after the end of the Biafran War. She studied under the author Chinua Achebe, earning her bachelor's degree in English and literature at the University of Nigeria.