Stephen Kekeghe
Nigerian writer and physician
Stephen Ese Kekeghe (born 10 October 1982) is a Nigerian writer, scholar and academic. His poetry collection Rumbling Sky (2020) is a joint winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors' Prize for Poetry in 2021, and his play Broken Edges (2023) was shortlisted for the Association of Nigerian Authors' Prize for Drama in 2023.
Early life and education
Kekeghe was born into an Urhobo family in 1982 in Imode, Delta State, Nigeria.
He completed his primary education at Baba-Ido Primary School in Okwagbe, Delta State, in 1995, and his secondary education at St. Vincent’s College, Okwagbe, in 2001, where he served as editor of the college press club.
Kekeghe obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Literary Studies from Delta State University, Abraka, in 2007. He later earned a master’s degree in literature from the University of Ibadan in 2012 and completed his PhD in Literature and Medicine at the same institution in 2018.
He has held teaching positions at the College of Education, Warri, and Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo. While at Ajayi Crowther University, he founded the ACU Creative Writers’ Club in 2021 and subsequently served as Head of the Department of English.
Kekeghe is currently a faculty member in the Department of English and Literary Studies at Delta State University, Abraka, where he teaches African Literature, Literature and Popular Culture, and Medical Humanities.
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