Onyeka Nwelue

Nollywood actor, Uche Mbadiegwu leaves his Surulere neighborhood in Lagos, to Bandra in Mumbai to join Bollywood, so he could make it big, hoping to play exceptional roles. Like a flash, Periwinkle appears in his life and changes everything. Tired of living in a pigsty, Efemena want to live a life of independence, but there is more to being a Nigerian in Mumbai - a constant escape from the Indian police and narcotics agents.This novel is a tale of violence, drugs, human trafficking, murder and sex.

A Young Haitian, Jean Claude, loses his parents in the earthquake that shattered Port-au-Prince in 2010. He is taken to an orphanage in France a place that will shatter his memory. Then, he finds his way to the University of Oxford, where he is arrested for trying to read at Weston Library. What is his crime in life? Nwelues unusual character explores problems affecting Africa, childhood memories, religion, colonialism. Theres infusion of historical facts, which makes it a delight Powerful descriptions and profound imageries deployed all through.

Rajaswamy Rajagopalan, a South Indian Tamil Brahmin essayist is totally in love and happy with his East Nigerian Christian wife, Eunice Onwubiko. But there is a threat to their nine-year old marriage. On a trip to Nigeria from India, David -- their only son travels in dreams with an albino dwarf, Nfanfa. A brain illness develops in David and this (alongside with the mass deportation of Indians from Nigeria) set the two families -- Rajagopalan and Onwubiko -- crashing in their faiths as they battle differently to keep alive, the chord that holds them together.

My dearest Sibling in Diaspora, I'm writing you these letters from Africa, a place described as a jungle by Pink people. It was from there that your great-grandfathers and mothers were shipped away to lands culturally different from theirs. They were forced into outfits that were strange to them. They were made to live in a different climate, against their will. They were mullioned, decorated and a new life festered on them. A very different life. More chaotic than they ever lived; translucently debilitating and quite horrendous; more often than you would find in the hardship that young people who are trafficked through Libya to Europe via the Mediterranean experience today... I am writing to you with a sorrowful and angry sound, because what the Pink people did to our fathers and mothers must never be forgotten or forgiven. We shall keep demanding that they apologise, and ceaselessly remind them of crimes against humanity. These tasks we must discharge daily. If we failed to do those, the Pink people would continue to manipulate and wound us. The Pink persons are evil; they constitute an affliction upon the world. Their heartlessness is unrivalled. Therefore, we must zealously repulse their advance. I am only writing to you, to apologise for many misdeeds. I apologise to you, my dearest Sibling in Diaspora, whom we allowed Pink people to take away from us. They have said that we 'sold' you into slavery. I agree. We did, because if we hadn't, no complicity would have been involved in stacking you on the ships. We helped them take you away. This is why I am writing this letter to you... To say, 'I am sorry and that you must forgive us for allowing them to take you away'. 'Forgive us'.

Set inside the ward at Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital in Yaba, situated in Lagos, a young nameless narrator unravels a chilling tale of beauty, sexuality, abuse and mystery.

"When I moved to Oxford, as an Academic Visitor at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, I screened my biopic of Emeka Ojukwu, on November 4th, 2021 at Lincoln Colleqe. When I stood there to give my speech, I could visualise myself as Shashi Tharoor, speaking at the Oxford Union Society, of which I joined much later as a member. Mr. Tharoor is one of the most brilliant men I know, and I thought, his brilliance shone through and would anyone be as eloquent and gracious? I could try with my speech at the screening of Other Side of History, which was jampacked. I will reproduce the speech I gave that very night here".

Osas is a young and impressionable Nigerian painter, who escapes poverty and hardship in Benin City, into the chaotic and crime-ridden belly of Johannesburg, through the help of a travel agent. But to survive, he must live a life of adventure and spontaneity and criminality.

"Let us start from the beginning of this story, when God created the Heaven and the Earth. Shapeless earth; nothing was real. It looked deep. Like a well. A well with no water. Darker as it got deeper. Everything seemed ordinary. Its extraordinariness was brought about by the omnipotence of God. God solidified everything. He said, Let there be Light. Light came, shining like a young, excited virgin." At Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital in Yaba, a young patient tells his fellow patients and nurses and doctors his intriguing story. From Lagos, he transports his listeners to the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, leading them to Rome, where everything unveils. A Country of Extraordinary Ghosts is a stunning narrative, that is shaped with magical realism. It explores mental health, politics, sexuality, religion and abuse in an uncanny way. "Onyeka Nwelue has written a very powerful novel that you wouldn't want to ignore." - Ephraim Adiele, The Trent.

Onyeka Nwelue and Odega Shawa edit an anthology to mark Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka's 84th birthday. There are over 60 poems from young poets celebrating this giant of African literature.

Every year, thousands of people travel to Oguta - a town in the heart of Imo State to ride across the Lake, where there is a Confluence. Myths and legends trail the Lake Goddess, Ogbuide. Oil companies quickly find their way to Oguta when oil is discovered there. Oguta suffers from many things - no electricity for over 7 years and no bank and no hospital. Now Oguta's story has inspired a major motion picture. Four friends, Bugzy (played by Trap musician, Bugzy Dvinci - Obinna Nwokedi), Willie (played by Willie Samuel Iboro), Arbenco (played by Arbenco Aigbe) and Akah (played by Lorenzo Menakaya), return to Oguta when NDDC promises to pay Oguta youths stipends. The narrative is centred on their relationship with their Oguta and her people - how they come to fight against oppressors and imperialists like Papi (played by Paulcy Nnamdi Iwuala), Chief Mbanefo (played by Harry B Anyanwu) and Reverend Father Amadi (played by Ugo Stevenson). THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF THE BOOK FEATURES: - Photos from the film - Foreword by ODEGA SHAWA - Exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film - Afterword by ONYEKA NWELUE

The Spice Bazaar is the tale of an Indian couple, Anand and Abha, living in Lagos with their daughter, Aarti and their relationship with their Nigerian hosts. We are shown the humane side of the Indian community in Lagos in this witty, comical and ravishing drama of racial integration.

"Onyeka Nwelue sets out to do more than add to the poetry firmament with another collection but instead seeks to provoke unending discourse on the joys of the unconventional poet outmaneuvering the straitjacket restrictions of the genre. Like a persistent itch that only goes away by scratching, it is hard to ignore this writer." - Eromo Egbejule, The Guardian (UK)