Dr Anenechukwu Kevin Amoke

My research centres on postcolonial African literature with particular attention to migration, gender, and spatial politics. I am also interested in moral economies of giving, indebtedness, and voice in African and diasporic fiction. This interest is grounded in a commitment to decolonial and innovative approaches to knowledge production, authorship, and literary form.

In my current role on the Nation of Refuge project, I collaborate with partners to facilitate co-created refugee storytelling, support museum-based literary engagement, and analyse refugee-authored texts alongside conventional literature on migration and displacement since 2000. I explore how displaced individuals use literary expression to engage with material culture, memory, and belonging. Through writing workshops and co-curation of responses to colonial-era museum objects, my work bridges postcolonial literary studies, refugee research, and curatorial practice.

The Nation of Refuge builds on my earlier fellowship at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, where I explored how displaced people imagine and inhabit their world through self-authored texts. Both projects grow out of my fully funded PhD in postcolonial African literature at Lancaster University (2023), which reconceptualised the African migrant body in postcolonial fiction as a site of gendered and moral economy, showing how sex work, remittance, and return operate through incomplete acts of giving within global systems of inequality. I am currently developing this research into a monograph.

I have taught African, postcolonial, and world literatures at both Lancaster University (during my PhD studies) and the University of Nigeria, where I also earned both BA and MA in English and Literary Studies. I have previously contributed to two AHRC-funded projects focused on vulnerable populations where I gained experience in interdisciplinary, impact-driven research.