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Onyekachi Wambu (born 1960) is a Nigerian-British

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. He has directed television documentaries for the

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Life

Onyekachi Wambu was born in Nigeria in 1960. In 1970, after the

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, he and his family moved to the UK. He attended the

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in Hornsey, north London, then studied at the

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, graduating with a degree in Government and Politics, after which he earned a postgraduate degree in International Relations from

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. In 1983 he became a journalist, and in the late 1980s, was editor of ''

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'' newspaper, launching the "Innvervision" column. He is also a regular contributor to ''

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'' magazine. He worked as a senior producer and director at

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, where his many credits included ''Ebony'', ''Ebony People'', ''Ain't No Black in the Union Jack'' and ''Will to Win''. In the late 1990s, he worked in the US for two years making the

documentary ''Hopes on the Horizon'', In 2002 Wambu became information officer at the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD), where he is currently Executive Director.

Works

Books

* (ed.) ''Empire Windrush: fifty years of writing about Black Britain''. London:

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, 1998. Published in the United States under the title ''Hurricane hits England: an anthology of writing about Black Britain''. * ''A Fuller Picture''. London:

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, 1999. * (with

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) ''Igbo-English, English-Igbo dictionary and phrasebook''. New York:

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, 1999. * ''Lord John Taylor of Warwick''. London: Tamarind Books, 2000. * (ed.) ''Under the tree of talking: leadership for change in Africa''. London: Counterpoint, 2007.

Documentaries

* ''Hopes on the Horizon'', 2001. PBS.

References

External links

"Onyekachi Wambu - Return Of The Icons"
YouTube, 24 August 2021. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wambu, Onyekachi 1960 births 20th-century British journalists 21st-century British journalists Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Essex Black British journalists Black British writers British newspaper editors Living people Nigerian emigrants to the United Kingdom People educated at the Stationers' Company's School