Chiké Frankie Edozien

Chiké Frankie Edozien is a Nigerian-American writer and journalist. He is currently the Director of New York University, Accra. He directed the New York University Journalism Institute's Ghana based ‘Reporting Africa’ program from 2008 to 2019. He is a journalist who honed his skills writing about government, health and cultural issues for a variety of publications.
He is the author of the 2017 book Lives of Great Men, a Lambda Literary Award winner. 'Lives' was shortlisted for the Randy Shilts Award for Non-Fiction in 2018 by the Publishing Triangle. Edozien has spoken about the themes of freedom, perseverance, and courage expressed in 'Lives' around the world from India to Australia to New Zealand to South Africa and Nigeria as well as Ghana and the United States.