The Renaissance Man
Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima
I stopped working for salaries in 2000 and registered my own company, King of Kings Books International .
After working as the youngest professional script writer.in Africa for the NIgerian Television Authority (NTA) Channel 10 at 18.
Art and Features Editor for Kiddies World magazine of Hon. Babatunde Ereola at 24-25;
National Program Consultant for the UNICEF in Nigeria at 25;
IEC Field Officer for the Center for Education, Population, AIDS and Drug Abuse (CEPADA) at 32;
Production Manager of "Money Wise" on DBN TV in Lagos at 35 and left after two years to start my indie publishing company at 37.
Already a national celebrity at 13 when I won the first prize in the national essay competition on "What I Like Best About NIgeria".
Represented Nigeria at two international book fairs for children's books in Japan for my illustrations on traditional farming tools in Nigeria when I was 20 and the youngest participant and ten years later, I curated one of the most successful and sold out group art exhibitions in Nigeria on Arts against AIDS for the celebration of the World AIDS Day in 1993 organized by NNNGO of Nigeria at the National Museum in Onikan and National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos. My oil paintings, "Eruption of the Love Virus" and "Metamorphosis of the HIV in the T-Cell" were the first artworks to be sold.
Then I directed my second stage drama, "Sleepless Night" on the June 12 political crisis at the French Cultural Centre in Ikoyi in 2002 cosponsored by my United Artists for Human Development (UAHD), French Cultural Centre and Otunba Dele Momodu, Founder and Publisher of the popular OVATION lifestyle and high society magazine. Then later founded and incorporated my second company, International Digital Post Network Limited, Publisher of the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series, the first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry since 2013. This digital media company is developing the most advanced mobile video app in Africa that will be for news, entertainment, eCommerce and fintech combined. My ultimate goal is for the mobile video app to be used for wealth creation and distribution for the reduction of poverty by 80 percent.