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- أونيكا نويليو (بالإنجليزية: Onyeka Nwelue) (مواليد 31 يناير 1988)، هُو مُخرج أفلام وكاتب نيجيري. (ar)
- Onyeka Nwelue (born 31 January 1988) is a Nigerian filmmaker, publisher, talk-show host, author, academic visitor and founder of the James Currey Society, at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford and a Visiting Scholar to the Centre of African Studies in the University of Cambridge. He is the Dean of the School of Cinematographic Studies at Université Queensland in Haiti. Nwelue is the founder and director of James Currey Literary Festival, which takes place annually at Weston Library, University of Oxford. A bust of James Currey was unveiled on 1 September 2022. Within the authority of The Nwelue Trust, he established the Henry Louis Gates Jr Fellowship, at the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge in honour of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. He had also instituted the Akachi Ezeigbo Prize for Literature. Plus the Earl Lovelace short fiction Prize. Nwelue studied sociology and anthropology at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and earned a scholarship to study directing at the Prague Film School in Czech Republic. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, by Universite Queensland in Haiti in 2019. He studied ancient masterpieces of world literature, under Professor Martin Puchner at Harvard University. The Onyeka Nwelue Scholarship for outstanding Imo State Economics Students is named after him. He is currently a visiting assistant professor and visiting fellow of African literature and studies in the English Language Department of the Faculty of Humanities, Manipur University in Imphal, India. He was a visiting research fellow at the Center for International Studies, Ohio University. His second novel, The Beginning of Everything Colourful, was shortlisted for the ANA Prose Fiction Prize in 2018, and his collection of poetry, The Lagos Cuban Jazz Club, was shortlisted for ANA Poetry Prize in the same year. (en)
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- أونيكا نويليو (بالإنجليزية: Onyeka Nwelue) (مواليد 31 يناير 1988)، هُو مُخرج أفلام وكاتب نيجيري. (ar)
- Onyeka Nwelue (born 31 January 1988) is a Nigerian filmmaker, publisher, talk-show host, author, academic visitor and founder of the James Currey Society, at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford and a Visiting Scholar to the Centre of African Studies in the University of Cambridge. He is the Dean of the School of Cinematographic Studies at Université Queensland in Haiti. Nwelue is the founder and director of James Currey Literary Festival, which takes place annually at Weston Library, University of Oxford. A bust of James Currey was unveiled on 1 September 2022. (en)