James Ngwu Eze

Writer

James Ngwu Eze was born in Enugu, southeast Nigeria. He was the pioneer literary editor of Sunday Sun. He is also the inaugural chairman of the Things Fall Apart Festival, hosted by the Centre for Memories, Enugu. As Head of External Communications at Fidelity Bank, he worked in partnership with the novelist Chimamanda Adichie to begin her popular International Creative Writing Workshop series. He is the curator of Under African Skies which hosts “A Flutter in the Woods,” a yearly evening of poetry and songs in Awka, Anambra State. He also co-founded and co-curated “Return to Idoto,” a poetry festival in honour of Christopher Okigbo in his hometown of Ojoto. Eze’s first collection of poems, Dispossessed, won the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize in 2020 and was long-listed for the Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2022. His second collection of poems, Goosebumps, was critically acclaimed for its profound treatment of a single theme of universal resonance. Eze has also sought new audiences for his poetry by setting the most lyrical of them to songs. Most of his recordings are on digital platforms under his name. unbind me now is his third collection of poems. Eze lives and works in Enugu, Nigeria.