Obi Benue Egbuna // ⓘ(18 July 1938 – 18 January 2014) was a Nigerian-born novelist, playwright and political activist known for leading the Universal Coloured People's Association (UCPA) and being a member of the British Black Panther Movement (1968–72) during the years when he lived in England, between 1961 and 1973.

[1][2] Egbuna participated in events organized by the Caribbean Artists Movement,[3] and in 1966 his play Wind Versus Polygamy was performed at the World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal,[4] where the Pan African Players and the Negro Theatre Workshop (founded in London by Pearl Connor) represented the United Kingdom.

[5] He became a pioneer of the Black Power movement in Britain,[6] forming the Universal Coloured People's Association (UCPA) – "the first avowed Black Power group in Britain in August 1967, following Stokely Carmichael's visit" – and speaking at a major anti-Vietnam War rally in October that year.

Although ideologically rooted in a similar Marxist intellectual tradition, he saw the student organisations as "socialist snobs" who decree from "the premise that only they have read and can understand Marx".

[15] Egbuna's papers are held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, at the New York Public Library.