OTHER SIDE OF HISTORY

Onyeka Nwelue, born in 1988, is a Nigerian scholar, filmmaker, jazz musician and publisher, who has published over 25 books, the most popular being the Crime Fiction Lovers’ Awards-winning The Strangers of Braamfontein, described by Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, as ‘raunchy.’ He left for India when he was 18 years, where he wrote his first novel, The Abyssinian Boy, which won the TM Aluko Prize for Fiction and the Ibrahim Tahir Prize for First Book in 2009. He was nominated for the Future Awards Africa thrice. Nwelue was an Academic Visitor to the University of Oxford and Visiting Scholar in the University of Cambridge. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at Ohio University. He was a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. His latest offering, “The Nigerian Mafia:Mumbai,” is the first book in a 10-book series, set in 10 countries. It was longlisted for the 2023 Chinua Achebe Prize and won the 2023 ANA Prose Prize. It’s currently being developed for film by Indian filmmaker, Ramesh Raparthy. Nwelue is the director of Africa Center Mexico.