Uche Oboko is a Reader and Head, Department of English, Madonna University, Nigeria. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English language (second class honours upper division) from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State; a Master of Arts (Teaching of English as a Second Language) from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; a Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Foundations and a Doctor of Philosophy in English from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State respectively. Uche Oboko is an erudite scholar and has attended many academic conferences at national and international levels. She has many book chapters and journal articles in notable international and national journals to her credit. Her most recent work explored Impoliteness, Implicature, Indirectness and Bias in Igbo Female Degrading Proverbs from a socio-pragmatic angle. Her research interests include: Syntax, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Applied linguistics and Language Studies. Her hobbies include: writing, reading, researching, listening to good music and dancing.
Head, Department of English, Madonna University, Nigeria, Okija Campus