Uche nduka biography



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Uche Nduka, (born 14 October 1963) is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, lecturer and songwriter who was awarded the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Poetry in 1997.

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  • He currently lives in New York City.

    Uche Nduka was born in Nigeria to a Christian family. His birth name was Williams Uche Nduka, the “Africanization ” of his name occurred after Dr. Juliet Okonkwo’s particularly moving treatise on African “cultural nationalism”.

    Raised bilingual in Igbo and English, he earned his BA from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and his MFA from Long Island University, Brooklyn. He left Nigeria in 1994 and settled in Germany after winning a fellowship from the Goethe Institute.

    He lived in Germany and Holland for the next decade and immigrated to the United States in 2007.

    Nduka’s work is notable for its surrealist energy and political urgency. According to Joyelle McSweeney: “To my reading, all of Nduka’s work is Surreal, and in this sense it is all poli