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A bilingual Africanist with a special interest in Nigerian (Igbo) and Intercultural Studies, Françoise is a Research Fellow at the Open University (UK) after 24 years at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where she rose to Professorship,... more

A bilingual Africanist with a special interest in Nigerian (Igbo) and Intercultural Studies, Françoise is a Research Fellow at the Open University (UK) after 24 years at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where she rose to Professorship, and seventeen years of lecturing in various English Universities. A Ph.D. examiner in France, Spain, Ireland, and the UK, she has been a long-standing member of the prestigious Africanist Society, Paris, served on its Council 2008-2012 and is an ex-officio President of the Association for the study of African literatures (APELA). A Senior Research Fellow, IFRA (Nigeria), the founding editor of the Journal of African Films & Diasporas Studies (JAFDIS, 2017-2020), and a regular reviewer for several European, American & Asian journals, she has published extensively in both French and English in France, Belgium, Britain, Italy, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and several African Countries.
Recent publications include Films et realisateurs nigérians (Paris, L'Harmattan 2024), Nollywood - Le cinéma nigérian 1991-2021 (Paris, L'Harmattan 2022), Nollywood on the Move, Nigeria on Display (Trier, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2013), Le pays igbo du Nigeria (Paris, L'Harmattan 2010), Biafra la déchirure (Paris, L'Harmattan 2009), Torn Apart: the Nigerian Civil War and its Impact (London, Adonis & Abbey 2010), and the first French translation of the first Igbo novel (Paris, Karthala 2010).
Nigerian Film Studies: Françoise’s area of expertise focuses on the reception, cultural, and linguistic impact of Nollywood in Europe. Her latest co-authored book publications include: Tsaaior James Tar & Ugochukwu Françoise (Eds), Nigerian Film Culture and the Idea of the Nation: Nollywood and National Narration (2017) & Omoera Osakue S. & Ugochukwu Francoise (Eds), Perspectives on Indigenous Language Films in the Global South, London, Adonis & Abbey (2024).
Ethnolinguistics: Apart from numerous book chapters and articles on Igbo Studies, Françoise was called upon to head the 1996 Igbo-French dictionary project that led to the publication of the Dictionnaire Igbo-francais suivi d'un index francais-igbo, Paris, Karthala 2004. This bilingual dictionary, commissioned by the French Government in support of its cultural relations with the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and sponsored by the Ibadan-based French Institute for Africa, is the very first Igbo-French dictionary based on standard Igbo. Its 3985 Igbo entries cover all areas of speech including the specialized vocabulary of metalanguage, health, and science.