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Oneyeka Nwelue

Onyeka Nwelue is a filmmaker, publisher, talk-show host, bookseller, author and currently an Academic Visitor at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He has won several awards for both his books and films including the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Fiction (2021), Creative Non-Fiction Book of the Year award (2015), and Best Feature Film by a Director at the Newark International Film Festival (2018). He is the founder of La Cave Musik, a record label based in Paris, and co-founded the London-based publishing house Abibiman Publishing. An Angel on the Piano (2020) and The Strangers of Braamfontein (2021) are his recent publications.
Year: 2022