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Onyeka Nwelue, born in 1988, is a Nigerian scholar, filmmaker, jazz musician and publisher, who has published over 30 books, the most popular being the Crime Fiction Lovers' Awards-winning The Strangers of Braamfontein, described by Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, as 'raunchy.' 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 and a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. His documentary The House of Nwapa was nominated in the Best Documentary category at the 2017 Africa Movie Academy Awards. The next year, Nwelue adapted his novella Island of Happiness into an Igbo film, Agwaetiti Obiụtọ, which was nominated in the Best First Feature Film and Best Film in an African Language categories at the 2018 Africa Movie Academy Awards and won the Best Film by a Director at the Newark International Film Festival. In 2024, his biopic of Emeka Ojukwu, Other Side of History, was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. Nwelue is the director of Africa Center Mexico.

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