Ifeoma Onyefulu


Ifeoma Onyefulu is a Nigerian children's author, novelist, and photographer. She is best known for her picture books which feature her photographs of village life in Africa.
Onyefulu was born in Onitsha, Anambra, Nigeria. She is a member of the Igbo ethnic group of Nigeria, and lives in the UK. She worked as a staff photographer on the Caribbean Times from 1986-87.

Books

Her first book, A is for Africa, was chosen as one of Child Education's Best Information Books and Junior Education's Best Books. She has twice won The Children's Africana Book Award, for Here Comes the Bride in 2004 and for Ikenna Goes to Nigeria in 2007. She equally won The Best Book for Young Children in the USA for Here Comes the Bride in 2005 and for Ikenna Goes to Nigeria in 2008.