[citation needed] Waiting, published in October 2008 by Guernica, describes life in a refugee camp from a child's point of view.
Meakin Armstrong, the magazine's fiction editor, noted that "it isn't pretentious nor rife with literary trickery.
His short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, AGNI, N+1, Harper's Magazine, Kenyon Review, Zyzzyva, Lapham's Quarterly, and has been translated into many languages including Japanese, Italian, Greek, French, Icelandic, Belarusian, etc.
Osondu sits on the pan-African literary initiative, Writivism's Board of Trustees, with fellow writers Zukiswa Wanner, Chika Unigwe, NoViolet Bulawayo, Nii Parkes and Lizzy Attree.
[citation needed] Voice of America- Short Stories This House is Not For Sale- Novel When the Sky is Ready the Stars Will Appear- Novel