‘My Father’s Daughter’, the memoir of Onyeka Onwenu, who is a veteran singer and songwriter, will soon be adapted into a television series by Nollywood filmmaker, Izu Ojukwu.
Onwenu revealed this recently when she hosted the media at the Four Points by Sheraton in Lagos.
Ojukwu is famous for producing movies such as Amina, Women’s Cot, 76 among others. He will be working alongside Chichi Nworah and Ngozi Osu who will serve as producer and editor respectively.
Richard Mofe-Damijo, Yinka Davies, Mandy Uzonitsha, Nse Ikpe-Etim, and many others to star in the upcoming series.
The book, My Father’s Daughter chronicles the life of Onwenu as a child, growing up in Obosi, Anambra State, under the care of her late father, Dixon-Kanu (DK) Onwenu.
In the book, she revealed how her late father’s life influenced her career choices, political engagements, and virtues.
The 11-chapter memoir encapsulates her experiences from childhood through the bloody Nigerian civil war, her blossoming journalism career, her legendary musical career, her journey into politics and government parastatals, and her doggedness, with which she soared through the male-dominated political domains.
