Poetry Reading Series: Ep 07

Listen to Dr. Onyeka Nwelue read “Rainy Season in Amakohia”, a poem by Echezonachukwu Nduka in his collection “Chrysanthemums for Wide-Eyed Ghosts”.

Dr. Onyeka Nwelue is a Nigerian filmmaker, publisher, talk-show host, bookseller, author and founder of the James Currey Society, at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He was a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, in South Africa, where he runs a bookshop and co-founded "World Arts Agency".

He is currently a visiting assistant professor and Visiting Fellow of African Literature and studies in the English Language Department of the Faculty of Humanities, Manipur University in Imphal, India. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for International Studies, Ohio University, where he spent time in Athens, Ohio.

His second novel, The Beginning of Everything Colourful, was shortlisted for the ANA Prose Fiction Prize in 2018, and his collection of poetry, The Lagos Cuban Jazz Club, was shortlisted for ANA Poetry Prize in the same year.

Nwelue is a Visiting Fellow (Academic Visitor) at the University of Oxford.