Onyeka Nubia FRHistS is a British historian, writer and lecturer. Using the pen name Onyeka, his works explore the history of Black British people, and multiculturalism in the United Kingdom. In 2013, he published the non-fiction work Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, their Presence, Status and Origins, which detailed the history of Black people in Tudor England. Blackamoores formed the basis of Onyeka's PhD by publication awarded by the University of East Anglia in 2016
Onyeka's third novel, The Phoenix, was awarded the 2009 African Achievers award for Communication and Media for the psychological portrayal of the Black British experience.
In 2009 Onyeka appeared on the television programme Shoot the Messenger on the TV channel VoxAfrica, discussing the experience of the African diaspora.
Onyeka is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of Nottingham.
He presented the 5Select television programme Walking Victorian Britain.
