Onuora Abuah

Anthony Onuora Abuah is a Nigerian–British actor, film director, producer and writer.

Early life and education He was born in Kenya to a Nigerian-Igbo father and Rwandan/ Ugandan mother of the Tutsi ethnic group. He spent his childhood around central and west Africa before his family relocated to Switzerland in Europe in 1995. Onuora attended the British School of Lomé where he spends three productive years and was given the opportunity to hone his writing and acting skills, before moving to the United Kingdom to attend Plymouth University and he later obtained a master's degree in Filmmaking from Central Film School.

Career Acting After living in Cardiff for a few years, Onuora joined the London-based MeWe Youth Theatre Company, where he was cast in a play about the ex-slave turned author, Olaudah Equiano. He later played the role of Olaudah Equiano in a short film from Talawa Theatre company for the Victoria & Albert Museum. His first feature film was in Tony Kaye's Black Water Transit (2009), before playing the lead role in the low budget film Patrolmen (2010). He then wrote and produced his first play Another Biafra, about the ongoing Niger-Delta oil crisis.

Directing Onuora directed his first feature film Woolwich Boys (2012), which screened at the British Urban Film Festival and was licensed by London Live in the UK, ETV in South Africa and Ebonylife TV across Africa. His second film, Mona (2016) starring David Avery and Lonyo, won the Grand Nile Award at the 2016 Luxor African Film Festival and was also nominated for two Africa Movie Academy Awards.

Documentaries Abuah has produced several documentaries on African history including Danhomé & Vodun (2018), A Thousand Years to Tomboctou (2019), Kano with Onuora Abuah (2020) and Revolution Now: 5 Days with Sowore (2022) about Sahara Reporters Founder Omoyele Sowore.

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