Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu who writes under the pen name Mazi Nwonwu is a Nigerian writer, curator and editor. He is the co-founder and managing editor of ''

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''. In 2017, he was listed as one of the most powerful persons in the media space alongside

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and

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by ''

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''.

Early life and career

Nwonwu was born in Nkwe, a village in

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, Enugu State. He attended the Government College, Kaduna (now

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) then moved on to Nnamdi Azikiwe University to study

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. He has worked as the managing editor at Olisa.tv. He co-founded ''

'' in 2014 with

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. He is also a journalist at

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. BBC described him as one of the new author's writing Nigeria. He is considered to be among the

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References

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