Obinna Udenwe’s Years of Shame: A Celebration of Ukpa Ji-Ukpa-Nwu Tradition and African Spirituality
By Paul Liam Obinna Udenwe has published several award-winning works of fiction, namely Satans and Shaitans, Colours of Hatred, The Widow That Died With Flowers in Her Mouth, Men Are Fools, and Years of Shame . Many of these works have not only won local and international awards but have also aided in establishing Udenwe as one of Africa’s most prolific and important fiction writers of the current generation of African writers. Udenwe won the first edition of The Chinua Achebe Prize for Lite ature in 2021 with his novel Colours of Hatred, which was also shortlisted for the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature. His first novel, Satans and Shaitans, won the ANA Prize for Fiction in 2015. In 2020, his short stories also won a Prairie Schooner—Glenna Luschei Prize. Men Are Fools, a collection of short stories, was a finalist in the Prairie Schooner—Raz Shumaker Book Prize. His short story, “It Has to Do with Emelia,” was adapted into a film by South African film production company Bump ...