Bøger af Onyeka Nwelue

"Let us start from the beginning of this story, when God created the Heaven and the Earth. Shapeless earth; nothing was real. It looked deep. Like a well. A well with no water. Darker as it got deeper. Everything seemed ordinary. Its extraordinariness was brought about by the omnipotence of God. God solidified everything. He said, Let there be Light. Light came, shining like a young, excited virgin." At Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital in Yaba, a young patient tells his fellow patients and nurses and doctors his intriguing story. From Lagos, he transports his listeners to the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, leading them to Rome, where everything unveils. A Country of Extraordinary Ghosts is a stunning narrative, that is shaped with magical realism. It explores mental health, politics, sexuality, religion and abuse in an uncanny way. "Onyeka Nwelue has written a very powerful novel that you wouldn't want to ignore." - Ephraim Adiele, The Trent.

The Spice Bazaar is the tale of an Indian couple, Anand and Abha, living in Lagos with their daughter, Aarti and their relationship with their Nigerian hosts. We are shown the humane side of the Indian community in Lagos in this witty, comical and ravishing drama of racial integration.

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are welcoming Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, who are visiting Japan as state guests, at the Imperial Palace, with Crown Prince Naruhito and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also attending a related event there. But there are two nameless people who are not happy with this visit - a Mexican musician, who hates the Spanish and a Japanese business man, who hates the Chinese. They meet at the Transit Lounge in Doha International Airport, waiting for their connecting flight to Tokyo and begin telling revealing stories, which take us to Lille, Paris, New York, New Delhi, Lagos, Tel Aviv and down to Tokyo.

Every year, thousands of people travel to Oguta - a town in the heart of Imo State to ride across the Lake, where there is a Confluence. Myths and legends trail the Lake Goddess, Ogbuide. Oil companies quickly find their way to Oguta when oil is discovered there. Oguta suffers from many things - no electricity for over 7 years and no bank and no hospital. Now Oguta's story has inspired a major motion picture. Four friends, Bugzy (played by Trap musician, Bugzy Dvinci - Obinna Nwokedi), Willie (played by Willie Samuel Iboro), Arbenco (played by Arbenco Aigbe) and Akah (played by Lorenzo Menakaya), return to Oguta when NDDC promises to pay Oguta youths stipends. The narrative is centred on their relationship with their Oguta and her people - how they come to fight against oppressors and imperialists like Papi (played by Paulcy Nnamdi Iwuala), Chief Mbanefo (played by Harry B Anyanwu) and Reverend Father Amadi (played by Ugo Stevenson). THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF THE BOOK FEATURES: - Photos from the film - Foreword by ODEGA SHAWA - Exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film - Afterword by ONYEKA NWELUE

The book, Hip Hop is Only for Children is a non-fictional work which shows the author's personal perspective on the Hip Hop culture, especially as it is portrayed in Nigeria and her music, written from the point of view of a critical insider who has lived his life listening to and appreciating a vast blend of music genres ranging from the fore-bearers of Nigeria's music industry - Celestine Ukwu, Onyeka Onwenu, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Sugar Hill Gang, Kris Okotie (yes, the "swagged-out" hair perming clergy), Junior and Pretty, Dizzy K, Oby Onyioha, Christie Essien-Igbokwe to mention a few - to the more recent pioneers like Davido, Wizkid, Flavour, Asa, Nneka, Orliam e.t.c, and even relatively unknown artistes like Kid M.A.R.L.E.Y, Boogie, Aduke, e.t.c - a further testimony of the great attention paid to detail and the author's true zeal and interest in the Nigerian hip hop/music industry. Hip Hop is Only for Children is an expository book about the modern day Hip-Hop culture, especially in the form it was imported into Nigeria. The book is a critical assessment of the Nigerian music industry from the point of view of a music enthusiast in a monotonous environment. The author, Onyeka Nwelue is a writer, lecturer and music record label entrepreneur who has spent a large chunk of his time in the company of a wide range Nigerian music artistes.

"Onyeka Nwelue sets out to do more than add to the poetry firmament with another collection but instead seeks to provoke unending discourse on the joys of the unconventional poet outmaneuvering the straitjacket restrictions of the genre. Like a persistent itch that only goes away by scratching, it is hard to ignore this writer." - Eromo Egbejule, The Guardian (UK)

Nollywood actor, Uche Mbadiegwu leaves his Surulere neighborhood in Lagos, to Bandra in Mumbai to join Bollywood, so he could make it big, hoping to play exceptional roles. Like a flash, Periwinkle appears in his life and changes everything. Tired of living in a pigsty, Efemena want to live a life of independence, but there is more to being a Nigerian in Mumbai - a constant escape from the Indian police and narcotics agents.This novel is a tale of violence, drugs, human trafficking, murder and sex.

PROFESSOR MAGNUS NWOKEKE is dead.Perceived as arrogant, proud and inaccessible, he is now in the Land of the Dead, watching people, busy, preparing a funeral party for him, in the Land of the Living. He belongs to the Anglican Church in his village, Ezeoke Nsu, so there is a Vigil, by the Umuokpu, a powerful clan group made up of the families' first daughters, who are seen singing at the back of the compound while having tea and eating bread. From the Other Side, Professor NWOKEKE can't stop them, but he grins and whines and cringes.

Money is power. When you have power, it can be intoxicating. That is why the power gate-keepers that money spawn like to delight in the broth of infallibility.But when powerful people are dragooned to their knees, it is always disastrous.Let''s think of Harvey Weinstein-who was the Executive Producer of almost every film you could find on Netflix, when they started. He provided them with all sorts of mooi content as you''d imagine. Still and all when his time was up, his fall was deep, steep, and tragic.Harvey had the money, so he had the power. Money is magnetic. It brings close to you, the wrong people. As you have the money, you have the power. There are many people hanging around to demystify you and wring that power away from you, forxiii         Onyeka Nweluethemselves. Every powerful person, has someone, willing to take him out.In the circle of the powerful, it is the least powerful that wants to usurp all the powers. They stay strategically placing themselves where they can take over.The real owners of Britain are not the ''real'' Britons. The real owners of Britain are people, whose ancestors came here long ago. They have now mastered the channels to get to where they want and when they do, they no longer want others, who look like them to come

My dearest Sibling in Diaspora,I'm writing you these letters from Africa, a place described as a jungle by Pinkpeople.It was from there that your great-grandfathers and mothers were shipped away tolands culturally different from theirs. They were forced into outfits that werestrange to them. They were made to live in a different climate, against their willThey were mullioned, decorated and a new life festered on them. A very differentlife. More chaotic than they ever lived; translucently debilitating and quitehorrendous; more often than you would find in the hardship that young people whoare trafficked through Libya to Europe via the Mediterranean experience today.I am writing to you with a sorrowful and angry soul, because what the Pink peopledid to our fathers and mothers must never be forgotten or forgiven. We shall keepdemanding that they apologize, and ceaselessly remind them of their crimesagainst humanity.These are tasks we must discharge daily. If we failed to do those, the Pink peoplewould continue to manipulate and wound us. The Pink persons are evil; theyconstitute an affliction upon the world. Their heartlessness is unrivaled. Therefore,we must zealously repulse their advance.I am only writing to you, to apologize for many misdeeds. I apologize to you, mydearest Sibling in Diaspora, whom we allowed Pink people to take away from us.They have said that we "sold' you into slavery. I agree. We did, because if wehadn't, no complicity would have been involved in stacking you on the ships. Wehelped them take you away. This is why I am writing this letter to you.To say, I am sorry and that you must forgive us for allowing them to take youaway.Forgive us.

In Johannesburg, South Africa, two strangers, both of them from other countries, struggle to fulfill the dreams that urged them to leave home. Osas puts what little he has into ascertaining the papers that will permit him to enter South Africa from his homeland of Nigeria, only to learn that life has dealt him another harsh blow. With no other prospects, he befriends a fellow countryman, a known criminal. Chamai, a Canadina-Zimbabwean has come to South Africa to further his education, but when his financial resources dry up, he turns to sex work to make enough money to eat. In The Strangers of Braamfontein, Onyeka Nwelue pits the aspirations of those always striving for more against the realities of the immigrant experience.

My friend, Orah Alexander Somto tweeted a lot about his experience, trying to leave Ukraine to Poland. There were other people, but his tweets and our private WhatsApp messages, ignited the fires that burned the embers of this collection.Switch to the other side, I was perilously impaired by the adverse effect the friction between the tribes of Ukraine and Russia would infringe on the harmony of the world. This is why I was not too concerned at the way, the West presented it, to look like if one problem bemoans Europe, then, Africa will be crushed. Someone almost called it World War 3, but I think it''s same as the tribal wars going on everywhere in Africa. Africans are not less human!Either that, I surged the capacity of telling my emotions and forward bearing on the lumpiness of translating my feelings onto the page, to create sensations.

Rajaswamy Rajagopalan, a Tamil Brahmin essayist is totally in love and happy with his East Nigerian Christian wife, Eunice Onwubiko. But there is a threat to their nine year-old marriage.On a trip to Nigeria from India, David, their only son travels in dreams with an albino dwarf, Nfanfa. A brain illness develops in David and this (alongside the mass deportation of Indians from Nigeria) sets the two families, Rajagopalan and Onwubiko crashing in their faiths as they battle differently to keep alive the chord that holds them together.

Osas is a young and impressionable Nigerian painter, who escapes poverty and hardship in Benin City, into the chaotic and crime-ridden belly of Johannesburg, through the help of a travel agent. But to survive, he must live a life of adventure and spontaneity and criminality.