Agwu is a naturalized American citizen, tenured faculty at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, part of the City University of New York, and was a director of the college's Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Scholarship.
Agwu merupakan warga negara yang dinaturalisasi dan saat ini menjabat sebagai dosen tetap di Borough of Manhattan Community College, sebuah institusi yang merupakan bagian dari City University of New York.
Agwu was born in Enugu, Nigeria, the daughter of two teachers; Jacob Ukeje Agwu from Nigeria, and Europa Lauretta Durosimi Wilson, from Sierra Leone.
Agwu lahir di Enugu, Nigeria, sebagai putri dari dua orang guru, Jacob Ukeje Agwu yang berasal dari Nigeria, dan Europa Lauretta Durosimi Wilson, yang berasal dari Sierra Leone.
In the Nigerian Civil War, her family supported the Biafran side, their home in Umuahia was damaged by Nigerian bombers.
Selama Perang Saudara Nigeria, keluarganya mendukung pihak Biafra, dan rumah mereka di Umuahia hancur akibat serangan bom dari pasukan Nigeria.
They left the refugee camps for her grandmother's house in Sierra Leone, but it had burned down, leaving them homeless.
Setelah meninggalkan kamp pengungsi, mereka berusaha menuju rumah neneknya di Sierra Leone, tetapi rumah tersebut telah terbakar, menyebabkan mereka kehilangan tempat tinggal.
Most of her family returned to Nigeria after the end of the war in 1970, rejoining Agwu's father who had left the government service to become a farmer.
Sebagian besar anggota keluarganya kembali ke Nigeria setelah perang berakhir pada tahun 1970 dan bergabung dengan ayah
Agwu stayed behind in Freetown, Sierra Leone as a student at the Fourah Bay College Primary School and then at the Annie Walsh Memorial School.
Agwu tetap tinggal di Freetown, Sierra Leone, di mana ia melanjutkan pendidikan di Sekolah Dasar Fourah Bay College dan kemudian di Sekolah Memorial Annie Walsh.
On the recommendation of two of her university teachers, James O. C. Ezeilo and Isabelle Adjaero, she went to the University of Connecticut for graduate study, the same university where Adjaero earned her PhD.
Atas rekomendasi dua dosen universitasnya, James OC Ezeilo dan Isabelle Adjaero, ia melanjutkan studi pascasarjana di Universitas Connecticut, tempat Adjaero memperoleh gelar doktornya.
Agwu started her studies there in 1987, after working as a government statistician and as a lecturer at Kaduna Polytechnic.
Agwu memulai studi pascasarjananya pada tahun 1987, setelah sebelumnya bekerja sebagai ahli statistik pemerintah dan dosen di Politeknik Kaduna.
Agwu completed a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Connecticut in 1989.
Agwu menyelesaikan gelar master dalam bidang matematika di Universitas Connecticut pada tahun 1989.
She moved to the Syracuse University, where she completed her Ph.D. in mathematics education in 1995.
Selanjutnya, ia melanjutkan studi di Universitas Syracuse, di mana ia meraih gelar Ph.D. dalam pendidikan matematika pada tahun 1995.
In 2009, Agwu served a term as New York City branch president of the American Association of University Women, with an agenda of encouraging girls and women in STEM fields and of improving health in minority communities.
Pada tahun 2009, Agwu menjabat sebagai presiden cabang Kota New York dari American Association of University Women (AAUW), dengan fokus pada agenda untuk mendorong partisipasi anak perempuan dan perempuan dalam bidang STEM serta meningkatkan kesehatan di komunitas minoritas.
Agwu's interest in ethnomathematics stemmed from her development of a discrete mathematics course that would cover the college's requirement that students take a writing-intensive course.
Ketertarikan Agwu pada etnomatematika bermula dari pengembangan kursus matematika diskrit yang dirancang untuk memenuhi persyaratan perguruan tinggi, yang mengharuskan mahasiswa mengambil kursus menulis intensif.
Agwu is affiliated with the Glorious Miracle Embassy International children's ministry.
Agwu berafiliasi dengan pelayanan anak-anak Glorious Miracle Embassy International.
She has written and co-authored some books with fellow reverends about her faith, like God's Own: The Genesis of Mathematical Story-Telling and Woman Thou Art Loosened: Escaping the Limitations of Femininity.
Ia telah menulis dan berkolaborasi dalam penulisan beberapa buku bersama pendeta lainnya mengenai keyakinannya, di antaranya God's Own: The Genesis of Mathematical Story-Telling dan Woman Thou Art Loosened: Escaping the Limitations of Femininity.
Agwu married Nicholas C B Ogbonna and had a son Ngozichukwuka Jacob A D Agwu born on 9 October 1998 who is hearing and speech impaired.
Agwu menikah dengan Nicholas CB Ogbonna, dan pasangan ini memiliki seorang putra, Ngozichukwuka Jacob AD Agwu, yang lahir pada 9 Oktober 1998 dan mengalami gangguan pendengaran serta bicara.
Nicholas Ogbonna had worked as a Red Cross volunteer for Biafra supervised by Agwu's mother.
Nicholas Ogbonna bekerja sebagai relawan Palang Merah untuk Biafra, di bawah pengawasan ibu Agwu.
Agwu is one of the founders of a non-government, non-profit organization called Chi Stem Toys Inc.
Agwu adalah salah satu pendiri organisasi nirlaba nonpemerintah yang bernama Chi Stem Toys Inc.