Ifeoma Onyefulu

Ifeoma Onyefulu (born 1959) is a Nigerian children's author, novelist, and photographer. She is best known for her picture books which feature her photographs of village life in Africa.
Onyefulu was born in Onitsha, Anambra, Nigeria. She is a member of the Igbo ethnic group of Nigeria, and lives in the UK. She also grew up in Nigeria. She married and moved over to Britain in 1982. She enrolled in a photographic training center in Earls Court, Britain. She subsequently gave up the business management course she was pursuing, because she got connected with photography in Britain. She began by taking photos for newspapers. She worked as a staff photographer on the Caribbean Times from 1986-87. In 1991 she began to write as well. She has two children which affected what she writes about. Her connection with her children and their schooling period may her to be more child-oriented in her writing and generally more interested in children. 
Awards.
Her first book, "A is for Africa," was chosen as one of Child Education's Best Information Books and Junior Education's Best Books. She has twice won The Children's Africana Book Award, for "Here Comes the Bride" in 2004 and for "Ikenna Goes to Nigeria" in 2007. She equally won The Best Book for Young Children in the USA for "Here Comes the Bride" in 2005 and for "Ikenna Goes to Nigeria" in 2008.