Ayo Oyeku

Writer

Ayo Oyeku is an Ebedi International Residency Fellow. He has published twelve books. He is a recipient of the Ezenwa Ohaeto Prize for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Children’s Literature. He has also been shortlisted twice for the Golden Baobab Prize, and longlisted twice for The Nigeria Prize for Literature. His picture book, ‘What Happened on Thursday? A Nigerian Civil War Story’ has won Children’s Book Council (CBC) Favourite Awards in the Teacher and Librarian Categories, Notable Social Studies Trade Books Award, Children’s Africana Book Award (CABA) Honor, and selected as one of The Best Children’s Books of the Year by Bank Street College of Education 2025.  He serves as an international contributor to World Kid Lit.