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Articles & Essays
- Adeaga, Tomi, 'Sexuality, Resistance, and Mobility in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', in African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Rose A. Sackeyfio (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021), pp. 59-72.
- Akani, Julius Nsirim, 'Gender Roles in Chika Unigwe's The Phoenix', African Research Review 10.2 (2016), pp. 295-306.
- Akpan, Kufre A. & Monica Udoette, 'Migration, Identity and Reconstruction of Female Migrants' Experiences in Chika Unigwe's Better Never Than Late', European Journal of Literary Studies 4.2 (July 2023), pp. 63-79.
- Alao, Osieka Osinimu, 'Migration and Identity in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Dutsinma: Journal of English and Literature 4.2 (2021), pp. 133-149.
- Allahyari, Keyvan, 'Undocumented Futures: Afrofeminist Conviviality in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', ariel: A Review of International English Literature 55.3-4 (July-October 2024), pp. 27-75.
- Anasiudu, Okwudiri, 'Mobility Trope: Travelling as a Signature of the Afropolitan Female Quest for Existential Subjectivity in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Journal of Gender and Power 14.2 (2020), pp. 123-141.
- Barberán Reinares, Laura, 'The Pedagogies of Sex Trafficking. Postcolonial Fiction: Consent, Agendy and Neoliberalism in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sister's Street', Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 46.1 (March 2019), pp. 56-76.
- Bastida-Rodriguez, Patricia, 'The Invisible Flâneuse: European Cities and the African Sex Worker in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Journal of Commonwealth Literature 49.2 (June 2014), pp. 203-214.
- Bastida-Rodriguez, Patricia, 'Afropolitan in Their Own Way? Writing and Self-identification in Aminatta Forna and Chika Unigwe', European Journal of English Studies 21.2 (2017), pp. 129-143.
- Bastida-Rodriguez, Patricia, & Elisabeth Bekers, 'Writing An(Other) Europe: Challenging Peripheries in Chika Unigwe's Fiction on Belgium', Journal of Postcolonial Writing 57.3 (2021), pp. 386-400.
- Bekers, Elisabeth, 'Chronicling Beyond Abyssinia: African Writing in Flanders, Belgium', Matatu 36, issue on 'Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe', ed. Elisabeth Bekers, Sissy Helff & Daniela Merolla (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2009), pp. 57-69.
- Bekers, Elisabeth, '"Bearing Gifts of Words": Multilingualism in the Fiction of Flemish-Nigerian Writer Chika Unigwe', in Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism, ed. Liesbeth Minnaard & Till Dembeck (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2014), pp. 119-134. Also published in German as '"Bearing Gifts of Words": Mehrsprachigkeit in der Erzählliteratur der flämisch-nigerianischen Autorin Chika Unigwe', KultuRRevolution 65 (November 2013), pp 37-45.
- Bekers, Elisabeth, 'The Mirage of Europe in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', in Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction, ed. Daria Tunca & Janet Wilson (Leiden & Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2016), pp. 255-277.
- Bekers, Elisabeth, 'Van "Brilliant Little Capital" tot "Open City": Brussel anders bekeken door Engelstalige prozaschrijvers', in Brussel schrijven: De stad als inspiratiebron sinds de 19e eeuw / Ecrire Bruxelles: La ville comme source d'inspiration depuis le 19e siècle, ed. Daniel Acke & Elisabeth Bekers (Brussels: VUB Press, 2016), pp. 123-148.
- Bragard, Véronique & Guido Latré, 'Cette autre Belgique: Sororité afro-europénne et paradoxe des non-lieux dans Black Sisters' Street de Chika Unigwe', in Literaire belgitude littéraire: Bruggen en beelden/Vues du Nord, ed. Stéphanie Vanasten & Matthieu Sergier (Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2011), pp. 233-248.
- Chukwudi-Ofoedu, Amara E., 'The Domination and Sexual Objectification of Women in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Journal of Humanities and Social Policy 3.1 (2017), pp. 1-9.
- Chukwumah, Ignatius, 'Haunting Past: The Mother Link to Inviting Roots in Chika Unigwe's Night Dancer', IUP Journal of English Studies 12.3 (September 2017), pp. 34-49.
- Codina Solà, Núria, 'Minority, Collectivity, and the Short Story Cycle. Identity and Difference in Chika Unigwe's Better Never Than Late', Interventions (2024), 17 pp.
- Courtois, Cédric, 'The Travelling Bodies of African Prostitutes in the Transnational Space in Chris Abani's Becoming Abigail (2006) and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street (2009)', in Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writng, ed. Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, Julia Tofanthuk (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), pp. 25-45.
- Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina, 'Inf(l)ecting Mind/body Dialectics: Self-emancipation through InsubordiNation in Chika Unigwe's Night Dancer', Journal of Commonwealth Literature (forthcoming; already available online to subscribers since July 2018).
- Daniels, Faith Ben, 'Discussing the Migrant Experience: From Dakolo and Darey's Songs to Chika Unigwe and Abi Dare's Novels', Modern Languages and Literatures 2.3 (2021), pp. 37-46.
- De Mul, Sarah, 'Becoming Black in Belgium: The Social Construction of Blackness in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Journal of Commonwealth Literature 49.1 (March 2014), pp. 11-27. Also published in The Novel and Europe, ed. Andrew Hammond (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 257-270.
- Diabangouaya, Célestin, 'Le Prix de la Liberté dans Night Dancer, On Black Sisters' Street et Waiting For An Angel de Chika Unigwe et de Helon Habila', Série A : Annales de la Faculté des Lettres, Arts et Sciences de l'Université de Moundou 7.1 (January 2020), pp. 107-123.
- Egbuta, Chinyere Otuu, Nkechinyere Kalu, & God'spower Etim, 'Linguistic Nuances and Creative Techniques in Chika Unigwe's Select Novels', International Journal of English Language and Communication Studies 6.1 (2021), pp. 39-51.
- Eze, Chielozona, 'Feminism with a Big "F": Ethics and the Rebirth of African Feminism in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Research in African Literatures 45.4 (Winter 2014), pp. 89-103.
- Flynn, Deirdre, 'Sex work and the city: Liminal lives in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Crossings Journal of Migration and Culture 13.1 (2022), pp. 47-60.
- Folie, Sandra, 'The White Continent of Night: Re-Imagining Europe in Women's Neocolonial Enslavement Narratives: On Black Sisters' Street and Joy', CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society 2.6 (2023), pp. 91-115.
- Ibemesi, F.N., 'Realism in Chika Unigwe's Novel: On Black Sisters' Street', Interdisciplinary Academic Essays 8 (2016), pp. 141-145.
- Haruna-Banke, Laura, & Iorwuese Gogo, 'A Realist Interpretation of Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature 3.1 (2021), pp. 32-40.
- Hassouna, Mohammed, 'The Doctrine of Egoism in Chika Unigwe's The Phoenix', The Internation Journal of Literary Humanities 20.2 (October 2022), pp. 165-175.
- Ikeagwuonu, Ogochukwu Prisca, 'Migrancy and Diaspora Identities in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', Journal of Communicative English 19 (2018), pp. 191-196.
- Kamalu, Ikenna & Blessing O. Ejezie, 'Ideational Representation of Prostitution in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Journal of Religion and Human Relations 8.2 (2016), pp. 239-258.
- Kehinde, Ayo, 'Narrating the African City from the Diaspora: Lagos as a Trope in Ben Okri and Chika Unigwe's Short Stories', African Identities 5.2 (August 2007), pp. 231-246. Also published in Postcolonial African Cities: Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicaments, ed. Fassil Demissie (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 73-88.
- Kyungun, Frank Aondoakaa & Raphael Terhemba Tayol, 'Psychoanalytical Reproach on Migration Experiences in Chika Unigwe's Novels', Igwebuike: An African Journal of Arts and Humanities 7.1 (2021), pp. 86-98.
- Ladele, Omolola A & Adesunmbo E. Omotayo, 'Migration and Identities in Chika Unigwe's Novels', Studies in Literature and Language 14.3 (2017), pp. 52-57.
- Ligaga, Dina, 'Ambiguous Agency in the Vulnerable Trafficked Body: Reading Sanusi's Eyo and Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 56.1 (June 2019), pp. 74-88.
- Mamah, Abou-Bakar, 'Transnational Sex Trade: Prostitution, Identity Crisis, and Memories in On Black Sisters Street, by Chika Unigwe', International Journal of African Studies 1.1 (March 2021), pp. 24-36.
- Mamudu, Adekunle, 'Poetic Justice and After-Life Vengeance in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street and Felix N. Ogoanah's The Return of Ameze', International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities 25 (2021), pp. 259-268.
- Nadaswaran, Shalini, 'Analyzing Sex Trafficking in Neo-Liberal Nigeria through Nigerian Women's Writings', International Journal of Social Science and Humanity 2.1 (January 2012).
- Ogede, Ode, 'Subverted Narrative of Disappointed Expectations: Immigration, Chattel Sex Slavery or Prostitution, Horrors of the Unutterable on the Borderline of Magical Realism (Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street)', in his Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature: Content and Form (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023), pp. 157-201.
- Ojiakor, Chinyere, & Aloy Obika, 'Displacement and Embodiment of Fear for Survival of the African Women in the 21st Century in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Journal of Global Education, Humanities, & Management Sciences 3.1 (2021), pp. 13-25.
- Odinye, Ifeoma E., 'Female Sexual Abuse and the Violation of Human Rights in African Fiction: An Example of Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Awka Journal of English Language and Literary Studies 6.2 (2018), pp. 63-82.
- Okolo, Ifeyinwa Genevieve, 'Unsettled Subjects: Sex Work in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', English Studies in Africa 62.2 (2019), pp. 112-123.
- Inyabri, Idom T. & Elizabeth Olaoye, 'Food, Migration, and Place Consciousness in Chika Unigwe's Better Never than Late', Journal of African Cultural Studies (forthcoming).
- Omuteche, Jairus, 'The Global Underground and the Illegitimate Diasporas in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Tradition and Change in Contemporary West and East African Fiction, ed. Ogaga Okuyade (Matatu 45; Amsterdam & New York NY: Rodopi, 2014), pp. 263-294.
- Onoja, Grace Ojonide, 'Interrogating Language Codes and the Impact of Naming and Description of Actors in Texts: A Case Study of Chika Unigwe's Selected Novels,' Dutsinma Journal of English and Literature 5.1 (2022), pp. 225-239.
- Onoja, Grace O., 'Representing Actions, States and Events through the Predicator in Chika Unigwe's Selected Novels', Dustin-Ma Journal of English and Literature 6.1 (2022), pp. 70-90.
- Onyema, Chris Chinemerem, 'Global Flows: Ecotrauma, Dis-location and Diaspora Imagination in Chika Unigwe's The Phoenix', Ofo: Journal of Transatlantic Studies 1.2 (December 2011), pp. 23-54.
- Onyijen, Kingston O., 'Predestination: A Critique of Chika Unigwe's Night Dancer', Abraka Humanities Review 10.1 (2020), pp. 148-160.
- Opeyemi, Ajibola, 'Representation of Female Migrants in Selected Nigerian Migrant Narratives', in Literary and Linguistic Perspectives on Orality, Literacy and Gender Studies: A Celebration of Oluwatoyin Jegede @ 60, ed. Ayo Osisanwo, Kazeem Adebiyi-Adelabu, and Adebayo Mosobalaje (Lagos: Kraft, 2018), pp. 127-138. Partly discusses The Phoenix and On Black Sisters' Street.
- Osigwe, Kelechi Chioma, 'Righting Migrants' Stories in Chika Unigwe's Better Never Than Late: A Review', Imbizo : International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies 12.2 (September 2021), pp. 1-7.
- Owonibi, Sola, & Funmilayo Gaji, 'The Trope of Apotheosis and Intimations of Self-immolation : A Deconstructive Interpretation of Mother-Daughter Dynamics in Chika Unigwe's Night Dancer', Contemporary Journal of African Studies 4.1 (January 2016), pp. 129-153.
- Pucherovà, Dobrota, 'Redefining Female Freedom in Contemporary African Women's Migrant Writing', in Africa on the Move: Shifting Identities, Histories, Boundaries, ed. Hana Horáková, Stephanie Rudwick & Martin Schmiedl (Zürich: LIT Verlag, 2019), pp. 49-66. A section of this chapter is entitled 'Nigerian Women as Victims of Human Trafficking: Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters' Street (2009)'.
- Sackeyfio, Rose A., 'Violated Bodies and Displaced Identities in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', in her West African Women in the Diaspora: Narratives of Other Spaces, Other Selves (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021).
- Savonic, Danica, '"The Problem of Locomotion": Infrastructure and Automobility in Three Postcolonial Urban Nigerian Novels', Modern Fiction Studies 61.4 (Winter 2015), pp. 669-689. Partly deals with On Black Sisters' Street.
- Simpson, Patricia Anne, 'Elective Affinities: Motherhood and Families Without Borders', in her Reimagining the European Family: Cultures of Immigration (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 55-82 (esp. 64-74). Includes a discussion of On Black Sisters' Street.
- Tunca, Daria, 'Redressing the "Narrative Balance": Subjection and Subjectivity in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Afroeuropa 3.1 (2009).
- Umezurike, Uchechukwu Peter, 'Resistance in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies 4.2 (2015), pp. 152-163.
- Umezurike, Uchechukwu Peter, 'Sexuality and Subjectivity in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street, UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities 16.1 (2015), pp. 1-25.
- Urama, Evelyn Nwachukwu & Chukwuka Ogbu Nwachukwu, 'Human Trafficking: Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Forced Domestic Labour in African Literature', Journal of Language and Cultural Education 5.2 (May 2017), pp. 123-137. Includes a discussion of On Black Sisters' Street.
- Uwakweh, Pauline Ada, 'Specters of Slavery, Sites of Violence: Reading Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street as a Neo-Slave Narrative', in her Women Writers of the New African Diaspora: Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023).
- Uzoh, Chinenye Vivian, 'A New Identity in the Diaspora: Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street and Meg Vandermerwe's Zebra Crossing', Interdisciplinary Journal of African and Asian Studies 6.1 (2020), pp. 1-10.
- Victor, Ogbeide O., 'Riding the Horses of Speech in Chika Unigwe's Night Dancer', International Journal of Innovative Research & Development 4.9 (August 2015), pp. 248-253.
- Villanova, Isabella, 'Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Gender and the Affective Dimensions of Sex Trafficking in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Il Tolomeo 24 (December 2022), pp. 215-234.
Entries in Encyclopedias and Reference Works
- Akinsiku, Beatrice, 'Representations of Blackness in Nigerian Literature: Chika Unigwe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA, 2021, 35 pp.
- Babayemi, Doyinsola Damilola, 'Human Trafficking in Contemporary African Fiction: A Study of Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street and Ifeanyi Ajaegbo's Sarah House', BA thesis, Federal University Oye Ekiti, Nigeria, 2018, 68 pp.
- Benkhaled, Sabrina, 'Capitalist Patriarchy and Sexual Exploitation in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street (2009)', MA thesis, University of Bejaia, Algeria, 2019, 84 pp.
- de Koning, Emma, 'Geluk als Fata Morgana: Geluk, hybriditeit en gender in Chika Unigwes De Feniks, Fata Morgana en Nachtdanser', MA thesis, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2016, 57 pp.
- Ferigutti, Sara, 'Trafficking Black Women in Chris Abani's Becoming Abigail and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', MA thesis, University of Padua, Italy, 2022, 87 pp.
- Houle-Eichel, Camille, 'Unseen (Re)creation: Trafficking and Migrant Sex Work in Chris Abani's Becoming Abigail and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street, MA dissertation, University of Montréal, Canada, 2021, 77 pp.
- Koffi, Koffi Asaph Sophonie, 'Immigration and Disillusion in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', MA thesis, Alassane Ouattara-Bouaké University, Ivory Coast, 2020, 96 pp.
- Leszczynska, Adriana, 'Culturele hybriditeit bij vrouwelijke personages in Nederlandstalige migrantenliteratuur', MA thesis, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2015, 54 pp.
- Nelissen, Lisa, 'The Importance of Storytelling in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street and Night Dancer', MA thesis, University of Liège, Belgium, 2018, 74 pp.
- Okolie, Mary JanePatrick Nwakaego, 'Historicising Borders: Studies in Nigerian Novels', PhD thesis, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2019, 182 pp.
- Ononiwu, Chinyere Maureen, 'Sexual Molestation Trauma in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sister's [sic] Street and Alice Walker's The Colour Purple', Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, 2021.
- Serim Kim, 'THEY CAN(NOT) SPEAK: The Subaltern Woman in Three Novels of Dutch Migrant Writers / ZE KUNNEN (NIET) SPREKEN: De subalterne vrouw in drie moderne romans van Nederlandse migrantschrijvers', MA thesis, Leiden University, Netherlands, 2019, 73 pp. In Dutch. Contains a study of Fata Morgana (On Black Sisters' Street).
- Steinfeld, Henning, 'Afropolitan Space Invading between Neoliberalization and Africanization', PhD thesis, University of Tübingen, Germany, 2018, 237 pp. Contains a section entitled 'Making Sense of Afropolitan Spaces: Collective Identities in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street (pp. 94-143).
- Toussaint, Marie, 'Le roman de la migritude et la question de l'identité féminine : étude comparée d'On Black Sisters' Street de Chika Unigwe, Americanah de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie et Des Fourmis dans la bouche de Khadi Hane', MA thesis, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, 2018, 149 pp. In French.
- Umezurike, Gideon Uzoma, 'The Quest for Authenticity in Americanah and On Black Sisters' Street', BA thesis, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 2015, 43 pp.
- Wader, N.V., 'Gender Dynamics in the Select Novels of Chimamanda Adichie, Sefi Atta, and Chika Unigwe', PhD thesis, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India, 2020.
- Winke Brits, 'Racial, Gender and Class Prejudice in Chika Unigwe's Novels', MA dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2013.
- Tunca, Daria, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie en Chika Unigwe: stemmen die aandacht verdienen', trans. into Dutch by Lode Demetter, Rekto:Verso 16 (April-May 2006), pp. 18-19. Also available in the original (unpublished) English version.
- 'Jonge honden aan de leiband', De Standaard, 30 June 2006.
- Akubuiro, Henry, 'My exploits in Belgium', Sun News, 1 July 2007.
- De Jong, Anneriek, 'Voor een hoer is schaamte luxe', nrc.nl, 18 January 2008.
- Adetoye, Prince Solomon Tai, 'I wouldn't write what I write if I had remained in Nigeria', Nation, c. February 2008.
- De Ruyck, Jo, '"Prostituees kunnen zich niet schamen"', De Standaard, 10 July 2009. In Dutch.
- Otas, Belinda, 'Chika Unigwe on the Streets of Antwerp', Publishing Perspectives, 23 December 2009.
- 'Alle dagen gedichtendag voor mij', De Standaard, 28 January 2010. In Dutch.
- Mathys, Kathy, 'De vrouw die weg durfde te gaan', De Standaard, 1 April 2011.
- Benoot, Rebecca, 'Crossing Borders', Flanders Today, 22 August 2012, p. 13.
- Agbedeh, Terh, 'I Got News of My Victory in Church - Chika Unigwe, Winner, Nigeria Prize for Literature', National Mirror, 2 November 2012, p. 19.
- Offiong, Adie Vanessa, 'I didn't have expectations beyond writing a good book - Unigwe', Daily Trust, 3 November 2012.
- Ohai, Chux, 'Chika Unigwe wants to build writers' village', Punch, 20 February 2013. No longer online.
- Osae-Brown, Funke, 'Chika Unigwe on winning the Nigerian Prize for Literature', BusinessDay, 5 April 2013.
- 'De Zwarte Messias - Chika Unigwe', Cobra, 28 May 2013. In Dutch.
- Adebisi, Yemi, 'Why I Vote for Nwapa's Books - Unigwe', Daily Independent, 11 October 2014.
News
- 'DIVA's in de bres voor allochtone vrouwen', De Redactie, 6 February 2009. In Dutch. No longer online.
- 'Chika Unigwe kiest voor schrijverscarrière en verlaat Turnhoutse politiek', Nieuwsblad, 10 December 2009.
- 'Chika Unigwe stapt uit gemeenteraad', De Standaard, 11 December 2009. In Dutch.
- Ogala, Emmanuel, 'Chika Unigwe emerges 2012 winner of NLNG prize for literature', Premium Times, 1 November 2012.
- 'Unigwe wins NLNG prize for literature', YouTube, uploaded by Channels Television, 2 November 2012.
- 'Chika Unigwe krijgt grootste Afrikaanse letterenprijs', De Standaard, 3 November 2012. In Dutch.
- Sam-Duru, Prisca, 'From NLNG's Treasury .. Chika Unigwe wins $100,000 NIG Prize for Literature', Vanguard, 8 November 2012.
- 'Governor, Peter Obi applauds winner of 2012 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature', News Ghana, 30 January 2013.
- 'Chika Unigwe receives money, plot of land from Gov Peter Obi for writers’ village', Ada Dike's Blog, 13 July 2013.
- Quadri, Zaynab, 'Nigerian novelist appointed Professor of creative writing at Brown University', Pulse, 9 May 2016.
- 'Unigwe appointed as judge for Man Booker Prize', Punch, 12 July 2016.
- Sam-Duru, Prisca, 'Three finalists shortlisted for NLNG sponsored literature prize emerge', Vanguard, 6 September 2016.
- Aromolaran, Michael, 'Award-winning author, Chika Unigwe, set to publish new novel', Punch, 21 March 2021.
- 'Creative Writing Faculty Member Knighted by the Belgian Government', Georgia College & State University, 20 December 2023.
- 'Chika Unigwe is head judge of the Caine Prize 2024', The Lagos Review, 21 April 2024.
- Spanoudi, Melina, 'Canongate Snaps up Chika Unigwe's Novel on "Agency and Forgiveness"', The Bookseller, 10 May 2024.
- Bassey, Rosemary, 'Northern Nigeria Writers' Workshop Opens for Emerging Authors', Daily Trust, 19 May 2024.
Reviews
The Phoenix
- 'Nigeria in Turnhout: De Feniks van Chika Unigwe', Che (November 2005). In Dutch.
- Cammaerts, Karolien, 'Life is hard, but so am I', Cutting Edge, 23 June 2007. In Dutch.
- Cloostermans, Marc, 'As en confetti: Grote emoties bij Chika Unigwe', De Standaard, 22 September 2005. In Dutch.
- de Heus, Hanna, 'In Nigeria doen we dat anders', Trouw, 15 October 2005.
- Dickinson, Elisabeth, 'An African Finds Peace in Europe', All Africa, 16 May 2008.
- Jacobs, Herman, 'Bergen van leed', Knack, 14 September 2005, pp. 81-81. In Dutch.
- Umez, Uche Peter, 'Isn't It Time to Let Go?', Eclectica 13 (January-February 2009).
- Verstraeten, Pieter, De Tijd, 3 October 2005. In Dutch.
On Black Sisters' Street
- Publishers Weekly Vol. 258.2 (10 January 2011), p. 27.
- Kirkus Reviews, 1 February 2011.
- 'Maux de passes, Elle 3970 (20 January 2022).
- Arunga, Abigail, Daily Nation (Kenya), 8 December 2016.
- Aubel, Damien, 'Put On the Red Light', Transfuge 154, 3 January 2022.
- Barr, Nicola, Guardian, 11 September 2010.
- Beck, Evelyn, Library Journal 136.2 (1 February 2011), p. 52.
- Cloostermans, Marc, 'Hoerenlief en hoerenleed', De Standaard, 28 September 2007. In Dutch.
- Eberstadt, Fernanda, 'Cash for Dreams', New York Times (Book Review), 1 May 2011, p. 12. Online version published as 'Tales From the Global Sex Trade', 29 April 2011.
- Ekunno, Mike, 'At the Crossroads On Black Sisters' Street', Daily Trust, 7 April 2013.
- Evaristo, Bernardine, 'Red lights, blue times', Independent, 3 July 2009, p. 29.
- Gelt, Jessica, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2011.
- Ijeoma, Doris I., 'Book Review: On Black Sisters' Street by Chika Unigwe', The News Digest, 5 December 2024.
- Ikheloa, Ikhide R., Next, 12 January 2010.
- Ivara, Nkem, Daily Times, May 2012.
- James, Caryn, More Magazine, date unknown.
- Johnstone, Doug, List 633 (9 July 2009).
- Norridge, Zoe, Times Literary Supplement, 11 September 2009.
- Obinna, Emelike, 'A Look at Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street', Business Day, 5 June 2023.
- Price, Ruth, The Bookbag, July 2009.
- Sermeus, Martijn, 'Waar hoop en illusie bekvechten', Cutting Edge, 9 January 2012. In Dutch.
- Spaak, Isabelle, 'Les insoumises de Lagos', Figaro Littéraire, 10 February 2022.
- Strauss, Leah, Booklist 107.13 (1 March 2011), p. 26.
- Umez, Uche Peter, 'Dream Renewed', Northeast Review, 28 February 2013.
Night Dancer
- Knack, 23 February 2011. In Dutch.
- Stylist, June 2012.
- Arunga, Abigail, Daily Nation (Kenya), 7 July 2016.
- Evaristo, Bernardine, Guardian, 2 August 2012.
- Juchtmans, Sarah, 'Bloed is dikker dan water', Cutting Edge, 28 February 2011. In Dutch.
- Nweuna, Obialije, 'NLNG'S $100,000 Nigerian Literature Prize 2016 – Who Picks the Bounty Out of 3 Shortlisted Authors?', Premium Times, 1 October 2016. Includes a review of Night Dancer.
The Black Messiah
- Desmedt, Dorien, 'Ambitieus met hier en daar een hapering', Cutting Edge, 15 July 2013. In Dutch.
- Jacobs, Peter, 'De messias was geen heilige', De Standaard, 19 July 2013. In Dutch.
- Kooman, Elizabeth, 'De messias die geen Messias hoefde zijn', Nederlands Dagblad, 2 August 2013. In Dutch.
- Michiels, Dirk, 'De zwarte messias: Literaire historische roman van Chika Unigwe', De Wereld Morgen, 3 September 2013. In Dutch.
- Van Dinter, Karel, Humanistisch-Vrijzinnige Vereniging, undated. In Dutch.
- Van Niekerk, Annemarie, 'Zwart in het Londen van 1796', Trouw, 31 August 2013. In Dutch.
Better Never Than Late
The Middle Daughter
- Egbuta, Ikechukwu Otuu, 'Ihe di na obi mmadu erika, the Improbable Heart of Human: Chika Unigwe's The Middle Daughter', The Sun, 26 August 2023.
- Kan, Toni, 'In Unigwe's Latest Novel, a Family's Tragedy Is Interwoven With Nigeria's Inequities & Inequalities', The Africa Report, 18 April 2023.
- Naffy, Meira, 'The Middle Daughter by Chika Unigwe', Medium, 30 May 2024.
- Owoeye, Taiwo Bisola, 'Review of the Novel: The Middle Daughter by Chika Unigwe', Medium, 24 October 2024.
- Sackeyfio, Rose, 'Chika Unigwe, The Middle Daughter', ALT 42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics, 2024.
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Miscellaneous
- Wanner, Zukiswa, 'Zukiswa Wanner's top five African writers', Guardian, 6 September 2012.
- Eeckhout, Bart, 'Is De Morgen racistisch?', De Morgen, 23 March 2014. Quotes comments posted on Twitter by Chika Unigwe.
- Vandyck, Tom, 'De speculaas van Obama: We weten gewoon niet meer wat racistisch is', Knack, 27 March 2014. In Dutch. Includes comments by Chika Unigwe on racism in Belgium.
- 'Belgian foreign minister criticised for blackening face in charity event', Guardian, 19 March 2015. Includes comments by Chika Unigwe.
- 'Didier "noiraud" Reynders moet opstappen', De Standaard, 21 March 2015. Quotes comments posted on Twitter by Chika Unigwe.
- Ukpong, Cletus, 'Nigerian authors reveal books that shaped their lives', Premium Times, 8 June 2016.
- Evaristo, Bernardine, 'Speaking in Tongues: The Greatest European Novels, Chosen by NS Friends and Contributors', New Statesman 145.5318 (10-16 June 2016), p. 59. Writers Bernardine Evaristo recommends On Black Sisters' Street.
- 'Makurdi Flood: Why Africans must use the media to tell our stories to the world Chika Unigwe', Bella Naija, 1 September 2017.
- Jones, Sam, 'Imaginary Regions: Travel Book "Journeys" to Fictional Literary Locations', The Guardian, 9 May 2022.
- Ogunyemi, Omolola Ijeoma, '7 Short Story Collections about the Dislocation of Migration', Electric Literature, 23 September 2022.
- Mhute, Wadzanai, '10 African Writers to Read This Year', Oprah Daily, 27 March 2023.
- '7 Must-Read African Novels by African Women for Your Weekend Escape', The Herald, 9 December 2023.
- Onafuye, Peace Yetunde, 'Our Favourite Books of 2023', The Republic, 24 December 2023.
- Buoro, Stephen, 'Read Your Way through Lagos', The New York Times, 7 February 2024.
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