The Strangers of Braamfontein - Paperback

by Onyeka Nwelue (Author)

In Johannesburg, South Africa, two strangers, both of them from other countries, struggle to fulfill the dreams that urged them to leave home.

Osas puts what little he has into ascertaining the papers that will permit him to enter South Africa from his homeland of Nigeria, only to learn that life has dealt him another harsh blow. With no other prospects, he befriends a fellow countryman, a known criminal. Chamai, a Canadina-Zimbabwean has come to South Africa to further his education, but when his financial resources dry up, he turns to sex work to make enough money to eat.

In The Strangers of Braamfontein, Onyeka Nwelue pits the aspirations of those always striving for more against the realities of the immigrant experience.

Author Biography

Onyeka Nwelue is a current Academic Visitor at the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. He is a filmmaker, publisher, and author whose Hip-Hop is Only for Children won the Creative Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2015 Nigerian Writers' Awards. He adapted his novella Island of Happiness into an Igbo-language film, AgwaetitiObiụtọ, which won Best Feature Film by a Director at the 2018 Newark International Film Festival.