Amarachi Attamah-Ugwu

Amarachi Attamah-Ugwu is the Igbo language Instructor in the Harvard African Language Program. She is also an Igbo language instructor in the Directed Independent Language Program (DILP), for the Yale center for language study, Yale University. She was a Teaching Assistant in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University. Amarachi earned an MA in Museum Studies with concentration in Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation, Language/Performance curation and museum education. She also earned an MA in Media Studies, with concentration in indigenous language broadcasting, from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Amarachi is a Chant Performer, Poet, and a mother-Tongue Advocate. Her core research and writing interests are indigenous language sustainability with a focus on Igbo linguistic, Igbo cultural studies, culture curation, and intangible heritage. Her Igbo/English poems have been published in many journals, and her chants featured in many films.

Amarachi taught Igbo language in the Amaezumezu summer language programs in Nigeria. As part of her advocacy for the sustainability of Igbo language, Amarachi founded the OJA Cultural Development Initiative, geared towards safeguarding the Igbo language and culture.

She has performed in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, the United Kingdom (where she completed a four-month performance fellowship with the British Royal National Theatre), and many performances in the USA. Amarachi is also an Igbo language translator and consultant.