User:Akpa Arinzechukwu

Brief Info

Akpa Arinzechukwu is a Nigerian born writer; he is a writer of short stories, plays and poetry. He was born on the 21st of July 1995 to a single mother, Ms Akpa Maria Nome; a primary school teacher.

Works:

Nightingale Tales (poems)

Citadel (poems)

My City Sister (short story)

My Village Church (short story)

Early Life:

Akpa Arinzechukwu was born in Uburu - Ohaozara Local Government Area of the former Abia state Presbyterian Hospital Uburu (Now Ebonyi State) on the 21st of July 1995. His family relocated to Anambra state when he was a baby, and started his primary education there and later moved to Uburu to complete all. He is currently a student of English Language and literature student at Ebonyi State University. While still in Junior Secondary he published a children's book 'The Great Hero' that sold 1000 copies in the first week of the publication, since then he has being writing, so many of which are yet to be published. Akpa Arinzechukwu started his writing career at a young age (15 years) when he published a children book 'The Great hero' set in England. His mother taught him how to read and write to keep him busy with the purpose of staying at home to keep away from the outside world. He grew up knowing he was going to be a writer. At age 6, he was caught by his mum trying to copy some passages from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, which his mother criticized and told him:

'Good writers are those who are original, they do not copy; they read, observe, criticise and write...'

Those words were later going to make him write to prove to the mother he was original and gave birth to that book 'The Great Hero'.

Career:

Akpa Arinzechukwu is a writer, he spends time writing in his school dorm, and also he is a computer programming tutor to students who wants to venture into the programming world of Computer. He has being doing this since 2011.

References: Akpa Arinzechukwu (talk) 13:12, 23 May 2015 (UTC)