Ngozi Chuma-Udeh

Ngozi Therese Chuma-Udeh is a Nigerian Professor of English who served as the University Orator at Anambra State University from 2012 to 2017. She is a teacher, an orator, an academic, a novelist, a poet, and an activist for women and children.

Quotes

• What your administration is doing at the center is wonderful because society is dependent on it. She said if the people coming into the center-left exactly how they were when they came to the center, society would suffer the consequences
  • [1] Commendation on the work of Michael Anugwa as deputy controller

• Establishing a school is a wonderful initiative as it offers the inmates opportunities of living a better life when released into society
  • [2] Speaking on the opportunities establishing a school gives

• I don’t think my orientation has changed. I am still a contemporary writer. Sometimes, I veer into feminism –the concern of women and children, not really feminism, because I have a brand of feminism I call Beside Feminism.
  • [3] Speaking on her orientation towards being a contemporary writer

• Womanism takes in a lot of things, like pride for women. Womanism may say: let the woman be superior to the man to some extent; it is a kind of struggle for supremacy. But Beside Feminism is not a struggle for supremacy; it is not a fight for power; it is not a struggle.
  • [4] Speaking on womanism

• So feminism means work to maintain a good family; live for your family; live for your husband; let your ideas match that of your husband; move beside your husband and be one in decision and in unison. Any other thing is not feminism.
  • [5] Speaking on her concept of feminism

• I believe I have something to offer to ANA. I have a great contribution to make to ANA. It doesn’t matter how many times I will be contesting; the most important thing is that there is something I want to give to ANA, and that I really want to achieve.
  • [6] Speaking on the values she can offer ANA

• In our contemporary society, we say behind a very successful man there is a woman, but I don’t think it is right to place your wife or woman behind you.
  • [7] Clarifying the need for women to stay beside their husbands, partners and not behind them