Chika Nina Unigwe // ⓘ (born 12 June 1974) is a Nigerian-born Igbo author[1] who writes in English and Dutch.

[2][3] She is on the Board of Trustees of pan-African literary initiative Writivism,[4] and set up the Awele Creative Trust in Nigeria to support young writers.

She attended secondary school at Federal Government Girls' college in Abuja and obtained a BA in English in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in 1995.

Telling of a young Nigerian woman living in a northern Belgian town who is diagnosed with cancer,[14] it is the first book of fiction written by a Flemish author of African origin.

It was published in Unigwe's own English version as On Black Sisters' Street by Jonathan Cape in 2009 and Random House in 2011.

[30][31][32] The shortlist that year also included Olushola Olugbesan's Only A Canvass and Ngozi Achebe's Onaedo: The Blacksmith's Daughter.

[38] In 2019, Unigwe published Better Never Than Late, a collection of linked short stories about Nigerian immigrants in Belgium, with Cassava Republic Press.

In 2020, Unigwe contributed "Two Happy Meals", to The middle of a sentence, an anthology of very short fiction featuring commissions from contemporary writers, new submissions, and selections from literature.

Set in Enugu and Atlanta, it reimagines the myth of Hades and Persephone through middle daughter Nani's marriage to preacher Ephraim.

[45] Unigwe is also the author of several children's books, including Ije at School (2001) and A Rainbow for Dinner (2002), both published by Macmillan,[23] and Obioma Plays Football (2022).

[51] Unigwe sits on the Board of Trustees of pan-African literary initiative Writivism,[4] and set up the Awele Creative Trust in Nigeria to support young writers.

[5] In April 2014, she was selected for the Festival's Africa39 list of 39 sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in Africa.

[citation needed] In 2016, Unigwe was appointed as the Bonderman Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.