Obinna Udenwe
Obinna Udenwe is the award winning author of the conspiracy thriller, Satans & Shaitans, and the controversial church-erotica, Holy Sex.
Obinna has received trainings from the British Council, Nigeria and the US National Endowment for Democracy, after which he founded and managed a youth development initiative, Ugreen Foundation from 2007 to 2014, training young people on leadership, governance and democracy, and won the Nigerian National Top12 Awards in 2009, the African International Achievers Awards 2012, the State Literary Icon Award 2014 from the Ebonyi State Government and the ANA Prize for Prose Fiction 2015. In 2012 and 2013, Obinna Udenwe organized and facilitated the Youth Creativity Class program that trained over 50 young people on creative writing, leadership and public speaking, after which he collated and edited the anthology Voices From My Clan. He has also initiated, financed and facilitated numerous leadership development programs for young people of his state of Ebonyi.
In 2016 he won the inaugural edition of the South African award; The Short Story is Dead Prize. For three years he has edited the Ebedi Review – an in-house magazine of the Ebedi International Writers Residency, Nigeria. He is the Founding Editor for Essays/Reviews.