The Chika Unigwe Bibliography

Primary Sources

Novels

The Phoenix (Lagos: Farafina, 2007). First published in Dutch translation as De Feniks, trans. Hans van Riemsdijk (Amsterdam & Antwerp: Meulenhoff Manteau, 2005).
On Black Sisters' Street (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009). First published in Dutch translation as Fata Morgana, trans. Hans van Riemsdijk (Amsterdam & Antwerp: Meulenhoff Manteau, 2007).
Night Dancer (London: Jonathan Cape, 2012). First published in Dutch translation as Nachtdanser, trans. Hans van Riemsdijk (Antwerp: De Bezige Bij, 2011).
The Black Messiah (unpublished in English). Published in Dutch translation as De Zwarte messias, trans. Hans van Riemsdijk (Antwerp: De Bezige Bij, 2013).

Collection of Short Stories

Better Never than Late (Abuja & London: Cassava Republic, 2019).

Short Stories Published in Journals and Books

'Why the Tortoise has a Cracked Shell', Voices: Wisconsin Review of African Languages and Literatures (2002).
"The Yellow Catapult', Sea of Voices, Isle of Story: A WIWA Anthology of Best Contemporary Writers, ed. Celeste Mergens & Marian Blue (Eugene OR: Triple Tree, 2003).
'That Bit of Sule', Lines in the Sand: New Writings on War and Peace, ed. Mary Hoffman & Rhiannon Lassiter (London: Frances Lincoln, 2003).
'Borrowed Smile', Wasafiri 39 (Summer 2003), pp. 30-32. Also published on AfricanWriter.com, 21 May 2005.
'The Curse', Muse Apprentice Guild (Fall 2003).
'The Secret', Open Wide Magazine 4.1 (2004). Also published in Seventh Street Alchemy: A Selection of Writings from the Caine Prize for African Writing 2004, ed. Nick Elam (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2005), pp. 74-83.
'Thinking of Angel', Eclectica Magazine 8.1 (January-February 2004).
'Dreams', Eclectica Magazine 8.1 (January-February 2004).
'On the Train to Leuven', Wasafiri 42 (Summer 2004), pp. 15-18.
'De Smaak van Sneeuw', in De Eerste Keer: Tien jonge talenten aan de start van hun schrijversloopbaan (Antwerp: Manteau & Standaard, 2004), pp. 82-97. Short story originally written in Dutch. Republished in the textbook Focus 6 (DeBoeck, 2012).
'The Swelling Word', Moving Worlds, 4.2 (2005), pp. 53-61.
'Possessing the Secret of Joy', Wasafiri 46 (Winter 2005), pp. 27-29. Also published in African Love Stories, ed. Ama Ata Aidoo (Banbury: Ayebia Clarke, 2006), pp. 222-230.
'Working Woman', DrumVoices Revue 13.1&2 (Southern Illinois University Press, Spring-Fall 2005), p. 111ff.
'Weathered Smiles', Spirit of the Commonwealth (London: CBA, 2005).
'The Burial of Mazi Ude', 16 Nigerian Female Writers, ed. Toyin Adewale-Gabriel (USA: Ishmael Reed Publishers, 2005).
'Anonymous', El Ghibli 3.13 (September 2006). Also published in African Presence in Europe and Beyond / Présence africaine en Europe et au-delà, ed. Kathleen Gyssels & Bénédicte Ledent (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2010), pp. 33-40.
'Efe', dragonfire 32 (15 December 2006). Also published in Literary Review 52.2 (Winter 2009), pp. 75-85.
'The Colour of Freedom', Clam (January 2007).
'The Invention of Football and Other Truths', Black Biro 3 (May 2007).
'Sugar in My Bowl', in Of Minstrelsy and Masks: The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian Writing, ed. Christine Matzke, Aderemi Raji-Oyelade & Geoffrey V. Davis (Matatu 33; Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2007), pp. 51-57.
'The Day Independence Came', Per Contra 9 (Winter 2007-2008).
'Cotton Candy', in Transcultural Modernities: Narrating African in Europe, ed. Elisabeth Bekers, Sissy Helff & Daniela Merolla (Matatu 36; Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2009), pp. 423-431.
'Efe', Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing 52.2 (Winter 2009), pp. 75-85.
'Going Home', 234 Next, 28 August 2009. Also published in Kenyon Review (Summer 2015).
'Waiting', Per Contra 17 (2010).
'Saving Agu's Wife', Agni 72 (2010), p. 230ff. Also published in Litro 113 (February 2012), in Europe Now 15 (2018), and in Hearing Voices: The Litro Anthology of New Fiction, ed. Eric Akoto & Dan Coxon (London: Litro, in association with Kingston University Press, 2015).
'Hope', Anglistica 15.1 (2011), pp. 19-24.
'The Exorcism', Kweli (March 2013).
'Love of a Fat Woman', Asymptote, April 2013.
'Heart of Darkness', citybooks (2013).
'Happiness', Transition 113 (April 2014), pp. 73-89. Also published in All the Good Things around Us: An Anthology of African Short Stories, ed. Ivor Agyeman-Duah (Banbury: Ayebia, 2016).
'Perfect', Guardian, 22 October 2014.
'Eèchtenteèchtig', in Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism, ed. Liesbeth Minnaard & Till Dembeck (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2014), pp. 109-116. With an introduction by Elisabeth Bekers (pp. 109-110).
'Soham's Mulatto', from Mood indigo, a novel in progress, in Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara, ed. Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014).
'The Smell of Home', Aljazeera, 7 November 2015.
'Bethlehem', One Throne 8 (Winter 2015).
'Leaving Meshach', Aster(ix) Journal, 8 December 2016.
'The Itinerary of Grief', Out of Print 30 (2018).
'Nchekwube', in New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Writing by Women of African Descent, ed. by Margaret Busby (Oxford: Myriad, 2019; New York: HarperCollins, 2019), pp. 617-621.
'How to Survive a Heat Wave', Literary Hub, 13 September 2019
'The Weight of Love', Wasafiri 34.4, 35th anniversary issue (2019), pp. 62-64. Also published in Isele Magazine (28 June 2020).
'A Hand across Her Back', Passa Porta, 26 March 2021.
Story in Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Writing from Nigeria, second edition, ed. Nduka Otiono & Odoh Diego Okenyodo (Lagos: Treasure & Mace, 2021).

Poetry

Collections of poems

Tear Drops (Enugu: Richardson, 1993).
Born in Nigeria (Enugu: Onyx, 1995).

Other Poems

'I Am', Okike 32 (February 1996), p. 5.
'First Steps', Sentinel Poetry 12 (November 2003).
'Dying on a Road in Lagos', Sentinel Poetry 12 (November 2003).
'Wishes', cnenigeria.com, 2004. No longer online.
'At the Dinner Table', cnenigeria.com, 2004. No longer online.
'The Picture on the Mantlepiece', cnenigeria.com, 2004. No longer online.
'Home Coming of the Been-To', cnenigeria.com, 2004. No longer online.
'Depression', cnenigeria.com, 2004. No longer online.
'A Road Scene', cnenigeria.com, 2004. No longer online.
'Love Ending', nigerians.biz, 2004. No longer online.
'My Uncle's Red Vest', nigerians.biz, 2004. No longer online.
'Simon Nkeazi', nigerians.biz, 2004. No longer online.
'Music On the Radio', nigerians.biz, 2004. No longer online.
'Cele Uwa', AfricanWriter.com, 11 June 2005. No longer online.
'Seattle, Ash Wednesday', AfricanWriter.com, 11 June 2005. No longer online.
'Musings', AfricanWriter.com, 11 June 2005. No longer online.
'Looking out the Window', AfricanWriter.com, 11 June 2005. No longer online.
'A Plea', AfricanWriter.com, 11 June 2005. No longer online.

Non-Fiction

Book (in Dutch)

Diep in uw schoot: Nieuwkomers in Turnhout (Turnhout: Warande, 2008). Includes texts by Wouter Van Bellingen & Tom Lanoye, and photos by Bart Van der Moeren.

Articles, Essays & Lectures

In English

'Sex, Women and (Hu)Woman Rights', USAfricaonline.com, 8 December 2001.
'Sex and hypocrisy of Gendered Justice', USAfricaonline.com, 24 January 2002.
'To My Friend, Ngozi Adichie: Way to Go!', USAfricaonline.com, 2004.
'Igbo Women and Social Change', in Sparks of Resistance, Flames of Change: Black Communities and Activism, ed. 'Muyiwa Falaiye & Sandra M. Grayson (Lagos: Foresight, 2005).
'Washing Hands and Needing the Loo', Kwenu.com, 2005.
'The Burden of my Being', Kwenu.com, 2005. No longer online.
Review of The Salt Reaper: Poems from the Flats, by Lasana M. Sekou, Postcolonial Text 2.3 (2006).
'Speaking Igbo, Writing English: Chika Responds to Suzy', LitNet, 18 April 2007.
'Any Old Antwerp Night', Eclectica 11.4 (October-November 2007).
'Nigerian Women and Labor Migration', Journal of the African Literature Association 2.2 (Summer-Fall 2008), pp. 116-124.
'May I have a small Obama please?', 234 Next, 25 January 2009.
Lecture delivered at TEDxEuston, 5 December 2009, YouTube, uploaded by TEDx Talks, 9 March 2010.
'Nigeria: Fulfilling our lost promise', Guardian, 3 June 2010.
'Laurent Gbagbo has put Ivory Coast on a precarious path', Guardian, 21 December 2010.
'How to Be an African', African Writing Online 9, 2010.
'Boko Haram Is Nigeria's Enemy', Guardian, 22 January 2012.
'Wealth, Power and Religion', Daily Times, 4 March 2012.
'Cappucino of beef, anyone?', Daily Times, 9 March 2012.
'Kids Say the Cutest Things', Daily Times, 18 March 2012.
'Don't You Want to Own Fine Things?', Daily Times, 18 March 2012.
'Hungry Nigerian Roads', Daily Times, 29 March 2012.
'Covering Africa's Rear', Daily Times, 4 April 2012.
'Till Death Do Us Part?', Daily Times, 8 April 2012.
'Let's Talk about Rape', Daily Times, 15 April 2012.
'Fireman! Fireman!', Daily Times, 22 April 2012.
'In a Pious Society...', Daily Times, 25 April 2012.
'Chika Unigwe on WORLDS Literary Festival', Vintage Books (blog), 13 July 2012. No longer online.
'Old wounds run deep', review of There Was a Country, by Chinua Achebe, New Statesman 141.5124 (28 September - 4 October 2012), p. 74. Online version: 27 September 2012.
'The Dis-ease of Multiple Identities: The Nature of Diasporan Identity in Caryl Phillips's Strange Fruit', in Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life, ed. Bénédicte Ledent & Daria Tunca (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2012), pp. 235-246.
'What I'm Thinking About ... Forgiveness and Healing', Guardian, 10 March 2013.
'Losing My Voice', Aeon (March 2013).
'Achebe freed me to tell my own story', New Statesman 142.5151&5152 (29 March - 11 April 2013), p. 17. A slightly different version of this article was also published as 'A Tribute for Chinua Achebe (16 November 1930 - 21 March 2013), AISCLI Newsletter (Spring 2013), pp. 2-3.
'Legalizing Prostitution Brings Protection and Better Care', New York Times, 19 September 2013.
'Migrant Nigerian Sex Workers and Feminism', Writing Invisibility: Conversations on the Hidden City (Johannesbur: Mail & Guardian, & ACMS, 2013), pp. 113-121.
'Will no one protect Nigeria's students?', Guardian, 19 April 2014.
'Tolerance is no longer the key', Guardian, 15 June 2014. Part of a multi-authored feature entitled 'British values, Michael Gove? Here's help from abroad on what they are'.
'The World Cup allows Nigerians a moment of joy', Guardian, 28 June 2014. Also published in The Gulf Times, 29 June 2014.
'Falling in Love with Brussels', Selamta Magazine, September-October 2014.
'The Transformation of Mama Paulina', Guernica, 16 March 2015.
'Former Dictator or Inept Incumbent? Nigeria's Dire Election Choice', Guardian, 27 March 2015.
'Crime and Christianity are killing off our religious traditions', Guardian, 9 September 2015.
'Nigeria has a new government, but Boko Haram is deadlier than ever', Guardian, 20 November 2015.
'The Near-Impossibility of Assimilation in Belgium', New York Times Magazine, 25 November 2015.
'A Tale of Two Books' & 'The Danger of A Single Reading: A Case for Cross Cultural Reading', in Erzählte Wirklichkeiten: Tübinger Poetik Dozentur 2014, ed. Dorothee Kimmich & Philipp Alexander Ostrowicz, with Caroline Merkel (Künzelsau: Swiridoff Verlag, 2015).
'A Tale of Two Books: A Forgotten Story and Things Fall Apart', Massachusetts Review 57.1 (Spring 2016), pp. 69-76.
'Before I Became a Writer, Loretta Reveals, 18 March 2016.
'A compelling debut set in northern Nigeria', review of Born on a Tuesday, by Elnathan John, Guardian, 28 April 2016.
'Belgium's African diaspora: In the shadow of terror', New African Magazine, 12 May 2016.
'Sketches of My Mother', The Missing Slate 14 (Summer 2016), pp. 16-19.
'The Danger of Reading The Single Book: A Plea for Cross-Cultural Reading', Fusion, 30 April 2017.
'When dreams die, they do not rot: three men, one dream and the theater', Africa is a Country, 23 July 2017.
'Why I No Longer Use the Term Game for Bushmeat', Brittle Paper, 7 August 2017.
'The Black Messiah: Writing Equiano', Journal of Commonwealth Literature (forthcoming; already available online to subscribers).
'It's not just Greta Thunberg: why are we ignoring the developing world's inspiring activists?', Guardian, 5 October 2019.
'Five things Covid-19 Has Taught Me About Life', Lagos Review, 13 April 2020.
'On That Prayer Walk For Trump', Daily Trust, 8 November 2020.
'Courage', Passa Porta, 1 December 2020.
'The Last Of The -Ember Months', Daily Trust, 6 December 2020.
'Spare The Rod And Spoil The Child?', Daily Trust, 20 December 2020.
'On Hypocrisy, Classism And Patriotism', Daily Trust, 10 January 2021.
'On Young Domestic Workers And Abuse', Daily Trust, 17 January 2021.
'On Overwhelming Emotions', Daily Trust, 24 January 2021.
'On the Dismissal of a Pregnant, Unmarried Police Officer', Daily Trust, 31 January 2021.
'On Disinheriting Igbo Daughters', Daily Trust, 7 February 2021.
'Free Yourselves', Daily Trust, 14 February 2021.
'Naija Girl Magic', Daily Trust, 21 February 2021.
'Emecheta, Buchi', in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, 2020.
'Dismantling The Culture Of Victim Blaming', Daily Trust, 11 March 2021.
'Here Comes the African Giant', Daily Trust, 17 March 2021.
'The Myth of the "Good African Woman"', Daily Trust, 25 March 2021.
'The African Woman (For the "Real" African Man', Daily Trust, 1 April 2021.
'To Whom Much Is Given, Much Is Expected', Daily Trust, 8 April 2021.
'Jack-In-Ghana', Daily Trust, 14 April 2021.
'On The School Girls Smoking Shisha', Daily Trust, 22 April 2021.
'Enchanté, Goodbye', Babbel, 13 May 2021.
'On the Blindness of Privilege: Pastor Paul Adefarasin And His Call For An Exit Plan', Daily Trust, 20 May 2021.
'A Quick Note On Depression and Suicide', Daily Trust, 27 May 2021.
'One Step at a Time', Daily Trust, 3 June 2021.
'Which Way Nigeria?', Daily Trust, 10 June 2021.
'Demo-Crazy Day', Daily Trust, 17 June 2021.
'A Noncomprehensive Manual For Life And Social Media', Daily Trust, 24 June 2021.
'Polit(R)Icking', Daily Trust, 1 July 2021.
'Madness Everywhere', Daily Trust, 8 July 2021.
'Children's Voices Matter', Daily Trust, 15 July 2021.
'Chopping Money', Daily Trust, 22 July 2021.
'Dreaming Big Dreams', Daily Trust, 5 August 2021.
'Our Culture?!', Daily Trust, 12 August 2021.
'Thoughts on Identity', Daily Trust, 19 August 2021.
'The Elite Vs The Rest of Us', Daily Trust, 26 August 2021.
'Amaechina', in Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity and Culture They Know (London: Borough Press, 2021).
'On Yahaya Aliyu', Daily Trust, 2 September 2021.
'This Is Someone's Child', Daily Trust, 9 September 2021.
'No, You're Not Buying A Baby By Adopting One', Daily Trust, 16 September 2021.
'Stop Perpetuating Harmful Gender Norms', Daily Trust, 23 September 2021.
'Loving a Country That Does Not Love You Back', Facebook, 2 October 2021.
'Living in Dystopia', Daily Trust, 7 October 2021.
'Nigerian Cuisine : Victim Of Colo Mentality, See Finish Or Ignorance?', Daily Trust, 14 October 2021.
'They Are European Children', Daily Trust, 21 October 2021.
'Egedege', Daily Trust, 28 October 2021.
Head Above Water: The Negotiations of Buchi Emecheta', Republic 5.4 (October-November 2021).
'Yellow Sisi', Daily Trust, 4 November 2021.
'Flower for Warriors', Daily Trust, 11 November 2021.
'Damaging Narratives', Daily Trust, 16 December 2021.
'We Are Zamfara', Daily Trust, 13 January 2022.
'A Note on Respect', Daily Trust, 20 January 2022.
'The Blessed of the Earth', Zeitgeister: International Perspectives from Culture and Society, February 2022.
'Where Money Is God', Daily Trust, 3 February 2022.
'Why Are Our Buildings Falling?', Daily Trust, 17 February 2022.
'Naming Is Neither Innocent Nor Neutral', Daily Trust, 24 February 2022.
'Anambra State Is Bleeding', Daily Trust, 3 March 2022.
'"Mannerless" Young People', Daily Trust, 10 March 2022.
'What Kind of Human Are You', Daily Trust, 17 March 2022.
'Our People Have Gone Mad Again', Daily Trust, 24 March 2022.
'Aluta Continua', Daily Trust, 24 March 2022.

In Dutch

Educational Material

A Rainbow For Dinner (London: Macmillan, 2003).
Ije at School (London: Macmillan, 2003).

Dissertation

'In the Shadow of Ala: Igbo Women Writing as an Act of Righting', PhD dissertation, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 2004, 217 pp.

Interviews

In English

'My E-Conversation with Chika Unigwe', by Nnorom Azuonye, Sentinel Poetry, March 2003.
'Of Phases and Faces: Unomah Azuah Engages Sefi Atta and Chika Unigwe', Research in African Literatures 39.2 (Summer 2008), pp. 108-116.
'Afroeuropa in Conversation with Chika Unigwe', by Daria Tunca, Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies 2.1 (2008).
'My Driving Force is That I Believe I'll Make It, Saturday Tribune, 29 November 2008. No longer online. Focuses on Chika's background, her writing and politics.
'TMHO Exclusive! Interview with Chika Unigwe', Tearing My Hair Our, 11 December 2008. No longer online. Focuses Nigeria and Belgium, Chika's writing and sources of inspiration, and her novel On Black Sisters' Street.
Interview by Bidisha, The Strand, BBC World Service, 3 July 2009.
Interview by Jane Garvey, Woman's Hour, BBC, 13 July 2009.
'Intervista a Chika Unigwe', YouTube, uploaded by Afrikanews, 14 September 2009. English with Italian subtitles.
'Lati's Corner interviews Chika Unigwe', Lati's Corner, 2009. No longer online. Focuses on biographical facts and Chika's novel On Black Sisters' Street.
'In Conversation: Chika Unigwe', interview by Belinda Otas, Belinda Otas, 3 February 2010.
'Interview with Chika Unigwe', Black Book News, 10 February 2010. No longer online. Mainly focuses on Chika's novel On Black Sisters' Street, her writing and literary influences.
'Interview with Chika Unigwe', by Kalamu ya Salaam, Neo Griot, 26 April 2010.
Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin, Per Contra 17 (2010).
'Chika Unigwe Talks On Black Sisters Street', by Ebele Chizea, Drumtide Magazine, 2010. Also published on Ebys, a Literary Blog, 26 March 2014.
'Geosi Reads Interviews Chika Unigwe, Author of On Black Sisters' Street!', Geosi Reads, 31 March 2011.
'Chika Unigwe: Interview with the Nigerian writer and poet', by Cristina Ali Farah, Vogue (Italy), 29 August 2011.
'Chika Unigwe - Writers Unlimited 2012', by Joke de Haan & Martijn Andernach, YouTube, uploaded by Writers Unlimited Winternachten festival Den Haag, 22 December 2011.
'Writers Changing Lives: A Chat with Chika Unigwe', by Nadja Borovac, Worldreader, 13 January 2012.
'Chika Unigwe on #OccupyNigeria', by Tom Devriendt, Africa is a Country, 20 January 2012.
'Interview: Chika Unigwe', by Mark Colvin, Friday Late, ABC Radio National, 3 February 2012. Audio.
'Interview', YouTube, uploaded by Klasgastredactie, 1 June 2012. Part 1 in Dutch, starts with a reading from the Dutch version of Night Dancer. See also parts 2 and 3 in English.
Interview by Audrey Brown, The Strand, BBC World Service, 8 June 2012.
'A Chat with Chika Unigwe!', The Emerge Review, 11 June 2012.
'Chika Unigwe talks to Anita Sethi: "The process of writing has changed me completely"', Southbank Centre Blog, 4 July 2012.
'Q & A with Chika Unigwe', Edinburgh World Writers' Conference, 20 August 2012.
'An Interview with Afro-Belgian Writer Chika Unigwe', by Daniel Musiitwa, Africa Book Club, 1 September 2012.
'Enterprising Africans: Chika Unigwe', YouTube, uploaded by Africa Web TV, 15 October 2012.
'Chika Unigwe talks to ElNathan', by Elnathan John, Daily Times, 2 November 2012.
'I come from a catholic home where "sex" wasn't a word – Chika Unigwe', Vanguard, 11 November 2012.
'Chika Unigwe Q & A Interview', The Ambrose Ehirim Files, 14 November 2012.
'Sleevenotes', The Documentary, BBC World Service, 20 November 2012.
'Nigeria: I Have No Idea What to Do With U.S.$100,000 - Unigwe', interview by Laju Arenyeka, Vanguard, 29 November 2012.
'High Impact writer: Chika Unigwe', YouTube, uploaded by High Impact Tour, 6 January 2013.
'I am not a confident writer - Chika Unigwe PT 1', Rubbin' Minds, Channels Television, 27 January 2013, YouTube, uploaded by Channels Television, 27 January 2013. See also part 2.
'I had to be on the street as if ready to sell myself – Chika Unigwe', interview by Prisca Sam-Duru, Vanguard, 10 February 2013.
'The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2012 Winner - Chika Unigwe', YouTube, uploaded by ngrprizeliterature, 13 February 2013.
'The 2nd Igbo Language Conference Preview Series Interview... Chika Unigwe', by Chigbo J.P. Ibe, Igbokwenu Radio, 4 April 2013.
'On Black Sisters Street', YouTube, uploaded by JB Multimedia Studios, 12 August 2013.
'Strangers in Each Other's Countries: A Discussion with Chika Unigwe", interview by Femke van Zeijl, Brittle Paper, 16 October 2013. See also the Dutch original.
'An Interview with Chika Unigwe', by Daria Tunca, Vicki Mortimer & Emmanuelle Del Calzo, Wasafiri 75 (Autumn 2013), pp. 54-59.
'Winning the NLGN Prize Has Changed My Life', interview by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Daily Trust, 10 November 2013.
'Lantana Ball Speaker: Chika Unigwe', YouTube, uploaded by WONDER FOUNDATION, 24 March 2014.
'Stolen Children, Laura Pegram Interviews Chika Unigwe', Kweli, 11 March 2014.
'(IR)REVERENCE: Interview with Mellon Creative Residents Chika Unigwe and Niq Mhlongo', by Miriam Hwang-Carlos, Decentered, 3 October 2014.
'Caine’s legitimacy comes from its work', interview by Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire, This Is Africa, 17 November 2014.
'Chika Unigwe', interview by Paddy O'Reilly, YouTube, uploaded by WheelerCentre, 27 January 2015.
'Writing Africa in Belgium, Europe: A Conversation with Chika Unigwe', by Elisabeth Bekers, Research in African Literatures 46.4 (Winter 2015), pp. 26-34.
'Interview: Chika Unigwe', by Jack Little, The Ofi Press 41 (April-May 2015). Interview conducted in March 2015.
'Chika Unigwe on Modern-day Sex Slavery and the Politics of Belonging', interview by Sanya Osha, AfricanWriter.com, 9 November 2015.
'Chika Unigwe on On Black Sisters' Street', interview by Omenka Helen Uchendu, Omenka Helen Uchendu, 8 December 2015.
'Author of the Month: Chika Unigwe', interview by Mehreen Fatima Ashfaq, The Missing Slate, 24 September 2016.
'Chika Unigwe: When Trepidation Hones the Imagination Into Literary Gems', interview by Chiedu Ezeanah, Premium Times, 3 October 2016.
'5 Fragen an Chika Unigwe', interview (in English) by Setumo-Thebe Mohlomi, Goethe Institut, December 2016.
'Chika Unigwe on the African Writers Festival', AfricanWriter.com, 17 February 2017.
'Biographical Fiction and the Creation of Possible Lives', interview by Michael Lackey, in Conversations with Biographical Novelists: Truthful Fictions across the Globe, ed. Michael Lackey (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018).
'Negofeminism and Art', interview by Rachael Fulton, the common breath, May 2020.
'Q&A: Words on the Times Chika Unigwe', Africa in Words, 19 May 2020.
'On Writing Transnational Migration in On Black Sisters' Street (2009) and Better Never Than Late (2019): An interview with Chika Unigwe', by Laura Barberán Reinares, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56.3 (2020), pp. 411-423.
'In je eigen huis mag je een racist zijn', interview with, De Morgen, 24 October 2020. In Dutch.
'Assume Knowledge', Republic 5.4 (October-November 2021).
'On Chiselling, Pruning and Trimming: Chika Unigwe in Conversation about Better Never Than Late', by Elisabeth Bekers et al., Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings 6.2 (2021).
'Fata Morgana : Chika Unigwe entre la réalité nigériane et le quartier chaud d'Anvers', by Gilles Bechet, Bruzz, 6 April 2022. In French. Also published as 'UNIGWE, Chika : Fata Morgana (2022)', Wallonica, 8 May 2022.
'Au Nigeria, on se prostitue pour un verre d'eau', Le Soir, by Cédric Petit, 15 April 2022. In French.

In Dutch

In other languages

As Interviewer

'Still Here, Still Queer: PW Talks with Francesca Ekwuyasi', Publishers Weekly, 18 September 2020.

In translation

The Phoenix

De Feniks, trans. into Dutch by Hans van Riemsdijk (Amsterdam & Antwerp: Meulenhoff Manteau, 2007).

On Black Sisters' Street

Fata morgana, trans. into Dutch by Hans van Riemsdijk (Amsterdam & Antwerp: Meulenhoff Manteau, 2007).
Le nigeriane, trans. into Italian by Giorgio Testa (Milan: Neri Pozza, 2008).
Schwarze Schwestern, trans. into German by Ira Wilhelm (Stuttgart, Tropen, 2010).
En la calle de la hermanas negras, trans. into Spanish by Aida Bahr Valcarcel (Santiago: Editorial Oriente, 2014).
Fatamorgana, trans. into Polish by Maja Porczyńska-Szarapa (Warsaw: WAB, 2014).
Fata Morgana, trans. into French by Marguerite (Paris: Globe, 2022).

Night Dancer

Nachtdanser, trans. into Dutch by Hans van Riemsdijk (Antwerp: De Bezige Bij, 2011).

The Black Messiah

De zwarte messias, trans. into Dutch Hans E. Van Riemsdijk (Antwerp: De Bezige Bij, 2013).

Short Stories

Audiobook

On Black Sisters' Street, read by Chinasa Ogbuagu, 8 CDs, unabridged, 9 hours and 30 minutes (Prince Frederick: Recorded Books, 2011).

Miscellaneous

'Confronting "How Different is Different?"', in a section entitled 'Memories, Dreams and Reflections: Wasafiri Tales from Around the World', Wasfiri 59 (Autumn 2009), pp. 92-93.
De Standaard, 5 March 2011. Chika Unigwe recommends her favourite restaurant in Turnhout.
'Are chips really the best thing about Belgium?', by Tamara Gausi, Guardian, 10 June 2011. Several people, including Chika Unigwe, give their opinion about the future of Belgium.
'Book Notes - Chika Unigwe (On Black Sisters Street)', largehearted boy, 11 August 2011. Chika creates and discusses a music playlist related to On Black Sisters' Street.
'High Impact // Students Workshop with Peter Terrin and Chika Unigwe', YouTube, uploaded by Henriette Louwerse, 11 March 2013.
My Nigeria: five writers and artists reflect on the place they call home', Guardian, 29 October 2021.

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