Buchi ANTUONWU

Gospel Singer, Writer

Buchi Antuonwu is a Reggae Gospel Singer and Writer. He was a lecturer at the Department of English in the University of Lagos until 1994 when he yielded to the higher calling to propagate the gospel of Jesus through writing and singing in the reggae genre. While in the university, his casual involvement in black activism, through reggae club grew more intense after listening to Oliver Thambo and the officials of African National Congress(ANC) from South Africa, during the club’s exhibition on “Apatheid in South Africa”. Again, having studied the black activist literature of Dennis Brutus, Wole Soyinka, Muta Baruka and the likes, his use of reggae music as an ‘outcry against oppression’ became deeper which led to his involvement in one of the campus confraternities which at the time prided themselves as anti oppression movements only to discover that there was more to it than met the eyes. Buchi's preoccupation with reggae music took a new turn when his…