![]() ![]() His favorite book was the manga series Blade of the Immortal. While he appreciated works by black authors he was required to read in high school, such as Their Eyes Were Watching God, Invisible Man and Native Son, he preferred adventure and science fiction stories. ![]() I operate in that sort of in-between space." Īs a youth, Onyebuchi was an avid reader and was strongly influenced by X-Men comics, especially the character of Black Panther. ![]() He says, "Growing up as the son of Nigerian immigrants, I always felt like I was in a position where I didn't completely identify as an African-American I can trace my family eight generations back, but I'm not fully Nigerian, because I was born in America. He attended the Choate Rosemary Hall school in Wallingford, Connecticut. His family then moved to Newington, Connecticut, to a mostly white neighborhood. His family lived in New Britain, Connecticut, until 1998, when his father died at aged 39. His first name means "praise God" in Igbo. His parents were Nigerian Igbo immigrants Elizabeth Ihuegbu and Nnamdi Onyebuchi, who was a restaurant manager. Onyebuchi was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. ![]() He is known for incorporating civil rights and Afrofuturism into his stories and novels. His novella, Riot Baby, received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the World Fantasy Award in 2021. Tochi Onyebuchi listen (born October 4, 1987) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and former civil rights lawyer. ![]()
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