Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo is a Nigerian American journalist, writer, and adjunct professor of Afro-Diaspora Literature and Post-Colonial African History at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
For fourteen years, he has hosted the Dr. Damages Show on SaharaTV & IrokopostTV online. The satirical show has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, and The Guardian (London). He is host of 90MinutesAfrica and HaveYourSay247. A regular panelist on The Diaspora Perspective on Voice of the People TV in Nigeria, he writes a column for Peoples Gazette.
His books include This American Life Sef, The Secret Letters of President Donald J. Trump, Age 73, and When Trump Met Kamala. He is also the author of a book of essays, Children of a Retired God.
A memoir piece “The Beginning,” published in Crab Orchard Review, was a finalist in the 2010 John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. His short story, “The Butcher, the Surgeon & Me”, was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s 2009 Open Fiction Competition.
Okonkwo has been interviewed on NPR and the BBC Africa Service, and his work has appeared in Quartz, This Is Africa, and La Repubblica.
Okonkwo holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Federal University of Technology Akure (Nigeria) and an MFA in Professional and Creative Writing from Western Connecticut State University, USA.
Paperback: 90 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (December 5, 2025)