When Zuku Mbeki hears the news that the murderers of his sister-in-law, Nomsa Dlamini, have been acquitted of all charges, he decides to take revenge by infiltrating Orania as a casual labourer. He bides his time, watching and learning and then cleverly and masterfully executes his revenge.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Onyeka Nwelue is a Nigerian writer, filmmaker, jazz musician, a trained anthropologist and a Žižekian disciple, a Soyinkaphile, who has published over 40 books, including the Crime Awards and ANA prize-winning The Strangers of Braamfontein, hailed by Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka as ‘raunchy.’ He is the founding director of the James Currey Society in Oxford, was an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Scholar in the University of Cambridge simultaneously. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at Ohio University and a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg and a Visiting Assistant Professor of African Literature to the University of Manipur, Imphal in India.
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.
'Murder in Orania' is published by Bayan Street Books
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