My Name: Chinedu Uchechukwu

Chinedu is a compression of the sentence Chí nà-èdú m̄, which means 'the Lord guides/leads me'. I prefer Chí nà-edú 'the Lord guides or leads', because I think the Lord leads and guides all of us, and not me alone. The second name, Úchèchúkwú, means 'the Will of God'.

Biography

Primary School: School Road Primary, Umuahia, Abia State

Secondary School: Immaculate Conception Seminary, Ahiaeke, Umuahia

Universities:

1. University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria [B.A. English, 1990]
   
2. Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, Germany [Masters in German Philology, 2002]
3. Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, Germany [PhD. German Linguistics and Lexicography, 2006]

Research Interest

1. The Igbo language in relation to the following fields: Lexicography, Lexicology, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistic, and Computational Linguistics
   
2. The development of Igbo language learning material, including language games
3. Comparative German/Igbo Language Studies