[2] While growing up, Ezenwa-Ohaeto envisioned becoming an inventor but changed his mind when he started reading his father's poems.
[1] He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English Language and Literature at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University.
In 2009, Chinua won the ANA/Mazariyya Teen Poetry Prize as a freshman at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.
[4] In 2018, he won the Castello di Duino Poesia Prize for an unpublished poem and was the recipient of the New Hampshire Institute of Art's 2018 Writing Award,[5] as well as the recipient of a scholarship to the institute's MFA program,[3][1] though he could not attend due to financial constraints.
[3] According to Afrocritik’s Anticipated Books of 2025, "Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s debut book of poetry, The Naming, conflates family history, Igbo ontology and the legends of origin and belonging in order to trace and name a lineage full of greatness and esoteric knowledge.