Onyekachi Wambu
Onyekachi Wambu (born 1960) is a Nigerian-British journalist and writer.
Life[]
Onyekachi Wambu was born in Nigeria in 1960.[1] In 1970, after the Nigerian Civil War, he and his family moved to the UK. In 1983 he became a journalist. In the late 1980s he edited the Voice newspaper, launching the 'Innvervision' column.[2] He has directed documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and PBS.[3]
In 2006 Onyekachi Wambu was information officer at the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD).[3]
Works[]
Books[]
- (ed.) Empire Windrush: fifty years of writing about Black Britain. London : V. Gollancz, 1998. Published in the United States under the title Hurricane hits England: an anthology of writing about Black Britain.
- A Fuller Picture. London: BFI, 1999.
- (with Nicholas Awde) Igbo-English, English-Igbo dictionary and phrasebook. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1999.
- Lord John Taylor of Warwick. Tamarind Ltd, 2000.
- (ed.) Under the tree of talking: leadership for change in Africa. London: Counterpoint, 2007.
Documentaries[]
- Hopes on the Horizon, 2001. PBS.[4]
References[]
- ^ Library of Congress Name Authority File
- ^ Alison Donnell (2002). "Wambu, Onyekachi". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 596. ISBN 978-1-134-70024-0.
- ^ a b Sheila Curran Bernard (2013). "Onyekachi Wambu". Documentary Storytelling: Making Stronger and More Dramatic Nonfiction Films. Taylor & Francis. p. 349. ISBN 978-1-136-04234-8.
- ^ Audrey Thomas McCluskey (2007). Frame by Frame III: A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994-2004. Indiana University Press. pp. 345–6. ISBN 978-0-253-34829-6.
Categories:
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Black British writers
- Nigerian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- 20th-century British journalists
- 21st-century British journalists
- British newspaper editors