Chidi Igwe

Chidi Igwe

Last seen: 1 month ago

I was born in Nigeria and trained in Canada. With a Master of Arts in linguistics from the University of Regina, and PhD from Dalhousie University, I am currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina. I have taught French language and linguistics in various institutions, including the French Language Centre, Awka and Dalhousie University, Halifax. I am the author of Taking Back Nigeria from 419, published in 2007, and many scholarly articles in reputable academic journals. I am a passionate servant of the people.

Member since Jan 18, 2021

We can't afford to just build greener. We must build less

One-tenth of global emissions result from the production and supply of building ...

'Oh creator, it's you I now renounce': How death metal ...

Not unlike gospel music, death metal seems heavily preoccupied with spiritual ma...

Weird weather: Metal rain and super-high temperatures o...

On the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-76b, metal is vaporized in the heat. Studying th...

Lessons from COVID-19 for the next pandemic: We need be...

Routine collection of work information from people testing positive for COVID-19...

Climate policy creates winners and losers, and governme...

At COP26, governments will have to consider how climate policies help them achie...

More than a million prisoners have been released during...

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world rel...

How metacognition — thinking about thinking — can impro...

Solving the cognition crisis requires we get smart about our own minds, and ther...

Consulting firms are the 'shadow public service' managi...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, governments in Canada have spent hundreds o...

Making our food fairer: Don't Call Me Resilient EP 12

Our food systems are failing to feed all of us. In this episode of Don’t Call M...

Making our food fairer: Don't Call Me Resilient EP 12 t...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the problem of food insecurity for many pe...

Why are babies going hungry in a food-rich nation like ...

With the high cost of infant formula, food-insecure mothers who cannot breastfee...

How parents can foster 'positive creativity' in kids to...

Parents often want their kids to be creative. But while creativity has many bene...

The chickenpox virus has a fascinating evolutionary his...

Chickenpox has largely disappeared from the public’s memory thanks to a highly e...

On Twitter, fossil fuel companies' climate misinformati...

Misinformation about climate change has been spreading in other ways, and social...

What the world can learn from the Buddhist concept lovi...

On World Kindness Day, a scholar of Buddhist studies explains its idea of compas...

Olympic Games are great for propagandists – how the les...

In the face of China’s repression and human rights abuses, a scholar asks whethe...