By Chris Onuoha
Obinna Chilekezi is a poet, author, teacher, literary critic and research fellow including insurance expert. His passion for creative writing, poetry precisely, spans over three decades with lots of publications to his credit. The Imo State-born social commentator, in this interview describes his journey into literary world as one with multifaceted background. Excerpts:
How would you describe yourself, believing it will make sense?
I don’t know how to start. Simply, I can say that I have multifaceted background, having read library science, publishing and journalism before vying into the business studies through reading banking and finance, market, insurance, and lastly entrepreneurship at the doctorate level.
Although I worked very briefly with Daily Times where I started writing in 1985 (had articles in Sunday Times, Business Times and my first poem in Times International); I can say that all my life I have worked and still working in the insurance industry. It is important to note that I started writing before I joined the insurance and I can say that it was like I forgot writing while being active in the insurance sector until few years back that I went back to writing.
