Onyekachi Wambu is a journalist, editor and television producer. Born in Nigeria in 1960, Onyekachi arrived in the UK after the Biafran war. Educated at the universities of Essex and Cambridge, he has worked as a journalist since 1983 and was Editor of the leading Black newspaper The Voice at the end of the 1980s. As a TV producer and director he has made documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. His two hour PBS documentary special screened across the US in 2001, Hopes on the Horizon: the Rise of the New Africa, received the Golden Dhow Award 2002 for Best Documentary.

He is currently Information Officer for the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD), a charity established to expand and enhance the contributions Africans in the diaspora make to Africa’s development. Wambu’s publications include Empire Windrush: Fifty Years of Writing About Black Britain (ed.) and Under the Tree of Talking: Leadership for Change in Africa (ed.).