by Ifeoma Onyefulu
I went to Jamaica this year to visit my sister, a professor at one of the universities there, and it was my second visit to that beautiful country. Before I arrived, my well-organised sister had researched, booked and paid for all the interesting places we would like to visit. Bless her, how kind…
If anyone had told me I would be writing poems in 2020, I would have laughed at them. But in January last year something strange happened, I began to get requests from schools to do poetry workshops, and no sooner had I said no to one school another one would pop up like…
Having just returned from the sunshine of Jamaica, to the cold and wet weather of the British winter, the memories of the island are still with me as I write. History, good food and company – as well as the chance to catch up with family. I am sure I will return… Read…
I have just published a reflection called My Children are your Children. Thinking about the past, as a child, and the development of my home landscape as I have grown up and moved away. We are all products of our background and the rich differences that make up all our wonderfully diverse communities….
The next country I visit after my week-long stay in Nigeria is Hong Kong. The trip is organised by Books Go Walkabout UK, and I am one of three children’s authors invited by an international school in Hong Kong for their Book Week. I have never been to the Far East before and…
Ifeoma is an award-winning children’s author and a photographer. She has won several awards for her books in USA, amongst them was CABA, (Children African Book Award), which she won twice. She has had many exhibitions – The British Museum, Liverpool Museum, Bristol Museum, Truro Museum and at the Afrika Center, Oslo, Norway,…
Quarto have just published the transcript of a great interview with Ifeoma on the creative background and approach to A is for Africa. On the Quarto Kids blog Ifeoma tells the story of how the original idea, text and images were created. ‘The idea for A is for Africa came to me when…
Meet Ifeoma at the Owl Bookshop in Kentish Town. Sunday, June 5th 2016 at 2.00pm A is For Africa has been re-released by Francis Lincoln Children’s Books in a new edition from this month. (May 2016). ‘From Beads to Drums to Masquerades, from Grandmother to Yams, this photographic alphabet captures the rhythms of…
Ifeoma is in Hong Kong, taking part at a week long series of events at The Kellett School, the International School in Hong Kong. As part of the Books go Walkabout team Ifeoma is delivering a series of workshops and creativity support sessions across the two campuses the school has at Kowloon Bay…
Send to Kindle‘One Big Family’ An exhibition of images by Ifeoma Onyefulu The Bernie Grant Arts Centre Tottenham, London, N15 4RX Tel: 0208 365 5450 My exhibition runs from 5th February 2015 to the 4th March. (I am having a private view on the evening of 6th Feb. Contact me directly for details). You can…