Onyeka Nwelue's mother, Catherine Ona Nwelue, taught for 35 years in public schools and is a religious scholar and social scientist.
19 Facts About Onyeka Nwelue
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Onyeka Nwelue has stated that he is the great-great-grandson of Royal court adjudicator Nze Ukwu Onyeka Nwelue Nnadum.
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Onyeka Nwelue briefly studied sociology and anthropology at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, but did not take a degree.
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Onyeka Nwelue subsequently studied for a diploma in scriptwriting at the Asian Academy of Film and TV, Noida.
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Onyeka Nwelue was later awarded a scholarship to study directing at the Prague Film School in the Czech Republic.
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Onyeka Nwelue left for Lagos when he was 16 years old to attend the Wole Soyinka Festival, after which he was introduced to the Nobel Laureate.
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Onyeka Nwelue is the author of, 22 books, twenty of which have been self-published or through his publishing company Abibiman Publishing.
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Onyeka Nwelue adapted his novella Island of Happiness into an Igbo-language film, Agwaetiti Obiuto, which won Best Feature Film by a Director at the 2018 Newark International Film Festival and went on to be nominated for Best First Feature Film by a Director and the Ousmane Sembene Award for Best Film in an African Language at the 2018 Africa Movie Academy Awards.
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Onyeka Nwelue is the founder of the Oxford-based James Currey Society.
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Onyeka Nwelue was an unpaid academic visitor at the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford from 2021 until 2023.
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Onyeka Nwelue founded Oxford-based James Currey Society and established the James Currey Fellowship.
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Onyeka Nwelue is founder and director of the James Currey Literary Festival, which took place at Weston Library, University of Oxford.
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Onyeka Nwelue was a Visiting Scholar to the Centre of African Studies in the University of Cambridge.
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Onyeka Nwelue had been claiming to be a "professor" at Oxford and Cambridge and using Oxford and Cambridge branding and logos on the websites of several of his companies and used the same logos to market events which were not associated with the University of Oxford.
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Onyeka Nwelue is the founder of La Cave Musik, a record label based in Paris, France, and co-founded the UK-based company Abibiman Publishing, through which Onyeka Nwelue self-publishes his own books.
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Onyeka Nwelue was arrested at the lobby of Onomo Hotel in Kigali and jailed for eight days, for allegedly "publicly insulting" Rwandan president Paul Kagame on Twitter and RwandAir.
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Onyeka Nwelue was released after the intervention of former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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On 1 February 2018, a day after his 30th birthday, Onyeka Nwelue was involved in a car accident, sustaining injuries to his lower back.
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Onyeka Nwelue was confined to a wheelchair for two months, before using a walking aid.