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Mr. Chukwuemeka Uche Onuora is an Information Systems graduate of Delaware State University (DSU) in Dover, Delaware. Uche began his primary school education at Air force Primary School and finished it at University Primary School, Enugu Campus, both in Enugu Nigeria. He attended Federal Government College, Enugu for his secondary school education. In 1997, Uche came to the US to study Computer Science at DSU. While at DSU, Uche was also a member of the Alpha Chi Honor Society; a member of the collegiate honors program; a member of both the National and the Collegiate Dean's List; and a founding member of the Computer Science Club. He was awarded an undergraduate research award by the Louis Stokes Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation, for presenting "A HotDispatch Ambulance System" at the 15th NAFEO High Tech Student Expo in Washington D.C.

Uche started creative writing on subtle encouragement from his elder brother in 1995. Eventually the political and historical animal that had smoldered in him from birth and that was always encouraged by his father, blossomed and found expression in his social and political commentary starting in 1997. Uche has never written professionally per se, and his first publication came in 1998 when he submitted an article to The News Journal, a Delaware newspaper, in response to a controversial article that the newspaper had published by one of DSU's professors. The experience strengthened his passion for writing and he found alternative avenues for expression including unpublished and published works of poetry, non-fiction, and political/social commentary. Uche has published some work in print as part of different poetry anthologies. However, he has published most of his work on the Internet as contributions to different Web sites on a wide range of subjects. Uche's interests include political debate, reading and writing poetry, current affairs analysis, and academic discourse on subjects ranging from psychology to philosophy to history. His writing serves as a tonic to assuage his deep feelings of frustration at the demise of African ethos.

Professionally, he is working on a plan to utilize information (and other emerging) technology in addressing the imbalance in the relationship between Africa and the rest of the world. Uche believes that reliance on reason should be the basis for establishment of truth; and holds the view that reason and experience rather than the non-rational are the fundamental criteria in the solution of our problems, and that the only way to effect a transformation of our ethos is to seize the reigns of leadership from those who have betrayed us. The metamorphosis of a once placid and detached adolescent into a determined renaissance soldier was instigated by Nnamdi Azikiwe's My Odyssey, being the one text that his father gave him on the eve of his sojourn to the US.

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