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
  1. Library of Congress Name Authority File
  2. Alison Donnell (2002). "Wambu, Onyekachi". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 596. ISBN 978-1-134-70024-0.
  3. 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.
  4. Audrey Thomas McCluskey (2007). Frame by Frame III: A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994-2004. Indiana University Press. pp. 345–6. ISBN 0-253-34829-3.
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