Onyeka Nwelue is a Nigerian writer, filmmaker and cultural entrepreneur. Described by Channel O as ‘an unalloyed genius’, the 26 year old has been appointed as a visiting lecturer of African Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, University of Hong Kong.
For his young age and having been a drop-out, Onyeka has an outstanding résumé, from penning his first book ‘Abyssinian Boy’ which won the T.M Aluko Prize for First Book of Fiction at the age of 18, to his second book ‘Burnt’, a narrative in verse published in 2014.
Nwelue has been published in The Guardian, Times of India, NEXT, Punch, Daily Times, The Sun, Vanguard, ThisDay, Eclectica Magazine, Kafla Intercontinental, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Insurance & Money Weekly and other publications. He became the first African to join Sandbox, which is a global community of young innovators under 30. He also received the 2013 Prince Claus Fund Ticket Grant, which he won to travel to Uganda for the Writivism Festival. (A Nigerian, Samuel Tosin Kolawole has also been awarded the Prince Claus Fund Ticket Grant to attend the Writivism Festival 2014.)
He has been invited to several conferences around the world and we are proud of this dashing young Nigerian who is making waves worldwide.
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This article was first published on 13th June 2014
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Onyeka Nwelue is a Nigerian writer, filmmaker and cultural entrepreneur. Described by Channel O as ‘an unalloyed genius’, the 26 year old has been appointed as a visiting lecturer of African Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, University of Hong Kong.
For his young age and having been a drop-out, Onyeka has an outstanding résumé, from penning his first book ‘Abyssinian Boy’ which won the T.M Aluko Prize for First Book of Fiction at the age of 18, to his second book ‘Burnt’, a narrative in verse published in 2014.
Nwelue has been published in The Guardian, Times of India, NEXT, Punch, Daily Times, The Sun, Vanguard, ThisDay, Eclectica Magazine, Kafla Intercontinental, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Insurance & Money Weekly and other publications. He became the first African to join Sandbox, which is a global community of young innovators under 30. He also received the 2013 Prince Claus Fund Ticket Grant, which he won to travel to Uganda for the Writivism Festival. (A Nigerian, Samuel Tosin Kolawole has also been awarded the Prince Claus Fund Ticket Grant to attend the Writivism Festival 2014.)
He has been invited to several conferences around the world and we are proud of this dashing young Nigerian who is making waves worldwide.
