Gangster Gangster

By Onyeka Nwelue

Onyeka Nwelue, born in 1988, is a Nigerian scholar, filmmaker, jazz
musician and publisher, who has published over 30 books, the most
popular being the Crime Fiction Lovers' Awards-winning The Strangers of
Braamfontein, described by Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, as 'raunchy.'
Nwelue was an Academic Visitor to the University of Oxford and
Visiting Scholar in the University of Cambridge. He was a Visiting Research
Fellow at Ohio University and a Research Associate at the University of
Johannesburg.
His documentary The House of Nwapa was nominated in the Best
Documentary category at the 2017 Africa Movie Academy Awards. The
next year, Nwelue adapted his novella Island of Happiness into an Igbo film,
Agwaetiti Obiụtọ, which was nominated in the Best First Feature Film and
Best Film in an African Language categories at the 2018 Africa Movie
Academy Awards and won the Best Film by a Director at the Newark
International Film Festival.
In 2024, his biopic of Emeka Ojukwu, Other Side of
History, was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. Nwelue is
the director of Africa Center Mexico.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FLKKY2KQ
• ISBN13: 9798296897701
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"