I express diasporic Nigerian experiences through scholarship, film, curating, fiction, and other mediums.

Ifeanyi Awachie (ih-FAH-yee AH-wah-CHYAY) is a Nigeria-born, Atlanta-raised writer, scholar, and filmmaker.

Ifeanyi holds an M.A. in Global Creative and Cultural Industries from SOAS University of London. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in Cinema Studies and a Corrigan Fellow at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an Adjunct Professor of Cinema, Television, and Emerging Media Studies at Morehouse College. Her writing appears in publications including Seen Journal, Feminist Review, and ASAP/J.

With a B.A. in English from Yale University, Ifeanyi is the author of Summer in Igboland. She is the writer and director of This Thing Is Not for You (2022), produced by WATZS Productions. Her short story, “A Dip of the Head, Not a Yes or a No,” appears in the February 2022 issue of the Hennepin Review.

As an undergraduate, Ifeanyi founded contemporary African arts festival AFRICA SALON. Following the success of the inaugural event, she was hired as Yale Africa Curator and invited to curate programming at the Brooklyn Museum. Ifeanyi curated ourselves + others: african feminist re-CREATIONS at SOAS University of London (2017) and has organized a number of contemporary African arts programs.

Ifeanyi previously worked as Assistant Curator at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, where, in addition to supporting the exhibition, film, live, and talks programs, she organized diasporic African art installations and performances. She was a founding member of The Politics of Pleasure Collective, a multidisciplinary Black feminist project that explored pleasure as a politics of refusal.