Writing as Pauline Onwubiko, she published Running for Cover (1988), a children's novel giving a child's-eye view of the Nigerian civil war.
[2] She is a Professor of Literature in the English Department at North Carolina A&T State University.
[4] She attended Owerri Girls Secondary School and in 1982 she graduated with a BA in literature from the University of Port Harcourt.
[6] Uwakweh has written literary criticism on a range of writers, including Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Nawal El-Saadawi, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Cyprian Ekwensi, Ama Ata Aidoo, Chimamanda Adichie and Goretti Kyomuhendo.
[7] Her own chapter looked at marriage, motherhood and immigration in the writing of Buchi Emecheta and Chimamanda Adichie.