Amarachi Attamah

Amarachi Attamah-Ugwu [amarat͡ʃi atama-uɡʷu] is a Nigerian Chant Performance artist, writer, poet, broadcaster, and an advocate for the preservation of the Igbo language from extinction.

[6][7][8] In 2023, she won the Mark and Pearle Clements Internship Award of $4000 in Syracuse University to support her independent research work: "Museum mapping of Igbo masks in United States and indigenous conceptualization".

[1] As a chant artist, she has performed in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom (where she completed a four-month performance fellowship with the Royal National Theatre after fifty-two theatre productions of the Three Sisters, A play by Inua Ellams, directed by Nadia Falls).

[14] She is the author of Tomorrow's Twist (2007), My Broad Daydream (2011), Making A Difference (2014) and Akuko lfo Nnemochie Kooro m (2014), a collection of short stories in lgbo.

She attended the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, earning a bachelor's degree in Mass Communication in 2012.

[24] In 2021, Attamah and Charles Ogbu began to re-publicize the person and music of the Igbo folklorist, Mike Ejeagha.