Onyeka Nwelue

Onyeka is a Nigerian writer and filmmaker, who won the Crime Fiction Lovers Award’s 2021, Best Indie Novel and the 2021 ANA Prose Prize for his novel The Strangers of Braamfontein. He adapted his novella, Island of Happiness, into an Igbo language film, which won him Best Director of a Feature at the 2018 Newark International Film Festival. His first novel, The Abyssinian Boy, was written when he was 18 years old, in India. He is the founder of the James Currey Society and has been an Academic Visitor to the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford and Visiting Scholar to the Centre for African Studies in the University of Cambridge.