Publisher's Profile

Award winning journalist, editor and public intellectual, Uduma Kalu is a writer, poet, researcher, scholar, founder of and community based group activist. He has published books-Life Sentence: Poems Prophesying the Coming Something,: Men from Space: Poems from the Island of Beyond; Labyrinths: Poems in Honour of Christopher Okigbo (co editor).

 A graduate of English of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (BA) and of the University of Ibadan (MA), Kalu is an MPhil/ PhD candidate at the University of Ibadan. He has numerous works in journals and anthologies. 

Kalu worked at The Guardian, Champion abd Vanguard as Editor (News, Entertainment, Book and Literature, Features etc. ). He was a key note speaker at the 2001 Third Steve Biko Memorial Lecture in South Africa with Chinua Achebe, Nelson Mandela and Nadine Gordimer leading.

 In 2006, he was slso a keynote speaker at the 2006 International Auto/Biopgraphical Association Conference at the Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. In 2008, his work was presented at the Harvard University for the Christopher Okigbo 50 Years Post Humus Celebrations. 

His journalism interest, as his creative writings, is for the development of Africa, her people, ensuring there is a good life for all, especially, underpriviledged, under represented and disadvantaged peoples of the world.