Five things to know about Nigerian-born Professor Uju Anya

A Nigerian-born lecturer Uju Anya sparked global outrage after she took to her verified Twitter handle to mock late Queen Elizabeth II‘s health condition hours before her death.

In a series of now-deleted tweets, the Professor fired several damning shots at the British empire and the influential role played by the late Queen of Elizabeth II, hoping that her death would be painfully “excruciating.”

Uju accused Queen Elizabeth II of sponsoring the “genocide” that led to her family being displaced.

In another tweet, she referenced the alleged role of the British empire in supplying the Nigerian government with arms and ammunition during the nation’s civil war which spanned 1967 – 1970.

Her post attracted a flurry of reactions including criticisms and backlash from even Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder.

Below are five things to know about Professor Uju Anya;

1: Dr. Uju Anya is a university professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Modern Languages who currently teaches and researches in applied linguistics, critical sociolinguistics, and critical discourse studies primarily examining race, gender, sexual, and social class identities in new language learning through the experiences of African American students.

2: Before working at Carnegie Mellon University, Anya served in other prestigious institutions like Penn State University, University of Southern California and Dartmouth College.

3: She graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Roman languages. Uju Anya earned her Masters degree in Brazilian studies from Brown University and did her Ph.D in applied linguistics from UCLA.

4: In 2021, the Nigerian Professor who had legally separated from her husband in 2017, announced on Twitter that she had just finalised her divorce with her husband, thus openly revealing that she is lesbian. In a statement released on Twitter, the Professor wrote that her ex-husband knew of her sexuality before they got married, but she only thought at the time she was bisexual.

5: She is from both Nigerian/Trinidadian origin. Her parents met at the University in England. They got married and moved to Enugu Nigeria. However, after her father took in another wife, her mother took her young children and fled to America.

She is an iron lady and Nigerians are proud of her. We are all solidly behind her.

Ok

Corridon:
She is an iron lady and Nigerians are proud of her. We are all solidly behind her.

Uncultured and lesbian? Nah, perhaps you Igbos are proud of one of your own! Count BabbanBura out of arrogant and uncultured person who turned to unnatural use of her body!

I support her stance on the British. Africans needs to know their history.

Just imagine if it was our king down here she said all these things to, a lot of people would have been calling for her head to be decapitated.

And she's still there living her life and you say White people are the problem?

I know no one can dare insult my oba like that. He or she will not live to tell the story.

Who's more wicked.

From a highly dysfunctional orientation. It begins from the home! Train up that child today.

internationalman:
Just imagine if it was our king down here she said all these things to, a lot of people would have been calling for her head to be decapitated.

And she's still there living her life and you say White people are the problem?

I know no one can dare insult my oba like that. He or she will not live to tell the story.

Who's more wicked.

ohhh international man,the same way piers Morgan openly mocked the death of mugabe, trump called a whole continent a shit hole, Africans are being dragged on a daily,yet no one is dying.
Leave uju alone,we all have right to our opinion,and the bigger question is that,are the white not colonizers who built their country with the loot from Africa

Ayam tayad of komenting

Corridon:
She is an iron lady and Nigerians are proud of her. We are all solidly behind her.

iron wetin? Be deceiving her there. She is half Nigerian self.

internationalman:
Just imagine if it was our king down here she said all these things to, a lot of people would have been calling for her head to be decapitated.

And she's still there living her life and you say White people are the problem?

I know no one can dare insult my oba like that. He or she will not live to tell the story.

Who's more wicked.

That's because there's no human right here

Corridon:
She is an iron lady and Nigerians are proud of her. We are all solidly behind her.

Its u and ur family that are proud of her...not Nigerians

internationalman:
Just imagine if it was our king down here she said all these things to, a lot of people would have been calling for her head to be decapitated.

And she's still there living her life and you say White people are the problem?

I know no one can dare insult my oba like that. He or she will not live to tell the story.

Who's more wicked.

You will soon here from d school authority. As she is now, she has already regretted what she said. Do u see are tweeting again after that foolish post. And you ungrateful ibos are on nairaland supporting her.

She's from a broken home.

Trinidad dey her blood, women from that axis and jamaica are crazy people.her mother is from that side.It's like craze is their cultural right

That said she wasn't raised here.she is not Nigerian culturally.Insulting and "dancing on the grave of the dead" is very alien to our culture.Shocking to say the least.

A large majority of sane Nigerians find her utterances appalling

phineas:
Trinidad dey her blood, women from that axis and jamaica are crazy people.her mother is from that side.It's like craze is their cultural right

That said she wasn't raised here.she is not Nigerian culturally.Insulting and "dancing on the grave of the dead" is very alien to our culture.Shocking to say the least.

A large majority of sane Nigerians find her utterances appalling

That's a lie. Nigerians celebrated on the streets after the death of Sani 'dictator' Abacha. STOP lying.

I support her on this...

Corridon:
She is an iron lady and Nigerians are proud of her. We are all solidly behind her.

Ogbenni na only u o.... Proud of who? A bisexual, a divorcee and above all rude and arrogant.

The major reason for these threads about Uju Anya is to project the igbos in bad light and by extension link it to Peter Obi.
Little did they know, OBIdients are focused.
We see no tribe...we see a humane Nigerian...We see Peter Obi and will vote for him


https://www.nairaland.com/7326362/uju-anya-obidients-tinubu-bigots

Her anger is misplaced.

Her experience should have taught her that leaders start a war just selfish reasons and nothing to do with the people.

Corridon:
She is an iron lady and Nigerians are proud of her. We are all solidly behind her.

Only a few cursed ipob pigs are proud of this ugly bloated lesbian pig.

Her Post is so touching, even to those that was affected by by British havoc carried out mostly in Nigeria

jom28gy:
Her Post is so touching, even to those that was affected by by British havoc carried out mostly in Nigeria

You are not a very intelligent person.

Corridon:
She is an iron lady and Nigerians are proud of her. We are all solidly behind her.

I am proud of her as a Nigerian but not as a person that spreads hate speech...
I understood your lots like people that spread hate speech a lot but i am not proud of such persons . such attitude is the lowest of the low

Gainman:
You will soon here from d school authority. As she is now, she has already regretted what she said. Do u see are tweeting again after that foolish post. And you ungrateful ibos are on nairaland supporting her.

next time type in Yoruba,,,

every kettle and pot will insult Igbos on nairaland even those who cannot put together a correct sentence