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I might die any moment, the only kidney I have is failing — Onyeka Nwelue

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Professor Onyeka Nwelue, Nigerian born author and founder of the James Currey Society, at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, has said he might die any moment as the only kidney he is left with is failing.

Onyeka who said he has been surviving on one kidney for some time, disclosed this in a post on his official X handle.

The award winning author revealed that he has been in the hospital for days, surrounded by family and few close friends.

Mr. Onyeka noted that he has made up his mind to prepare for what he can no longer outrun as doctors have done what they can.

Professor Onyeka Nwelue who also double as a lecturer at Oxford University, said his problem started after his father died of diabetes and Miles Larmer started tormenting him for
inviting Nigerian born investigative journalist, David Hundeyin to Oxford.

Apart from blaming Miles for his troubles at Oxford, he also fingered David Pratten, Doris Okenwa, Adrita Mitra, Madeline Foote and Freya Jones.

He urged them to tender a public apology to him before he dies for being part of his problem at Oxford.

Onyeka said, “It was when my father died of diabetes and Miles Larmer started tormenting me, simply because I was inviting David Hundeyin to Oxford and he did not want it.

“I have over 28,000 people on and I want at least, 20,000 to send this image to these contacts below and demand an apology from them.

“I have walked this earth with one kidney for years, and now, the only one I have left is failing. The doctors have done what they can, but I know what is coming. I have been in the hospital for over days now, surrounded by family and a few close friends. I have simply been preparing for what I can no longer outrun.

“I am calling on everyone to demand that Miles Larmer(m.larmer@ufl.edu), David Pratten (david.pratten@anthro.ox.ac.uk) Doris Okenwa (doris.okenwa@africa.ox.ac.uk), Adrita Mitra (adrita.mitra@history.ox.ac.uk), Madeline Foote (Madeleine.Foote@history.ox.ac.uk), and Freya Jones, (freya.jones@oriel.ox.ac.uk)—who have played a role in my problem at Oxford—tender a public apology. They were part of my problem at Oxford, and before I go, I want to see their apologies.

“I have no fear left. I am not doxxing them.”

A brief biography of Onyeka Nwelue.

Onyeka Nwelue is a Nigerian filmmaker, publisher, talk-show host, bookseller, author and an Academic Visitor and founder of the James Currey Society, at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

His non-fiction book Hip-Hop is Only for Children won the Creative Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2015 Nigerian Writers’ Awards. He adapted his novella Island of Happiness into an Igbo-language film, Agwaetiti Obiụtọ, which won Best Feature Film by a Director at the 2018 Newark International Film Festival and went on to be nominated for Best First Feature Film by a Director and the Ousmane Sembene Award for Best Film in an African Language at the 2018 Africa Movie Academy Awards. Island of Happiness was inspired by true events in Oguta.

Nwelue is the founder of La Cave Musik, a record label based in Paris, France, and co-founded the UK-based publishing house Abibiman Publishing.

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 is named after him.

He was a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, in South Africa, where he runs a bookshop Hattus Books and co-founded World Arts Agency.

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, where he spent time in Athens, Ohio.

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.

Nwelue is a Visiting Fellow (Academic Visitor) at the University of Oxford.