Colours of Hatred

Leona, an internationally renowned Sudanese-Nigerian model is asked by her father to marry Akinola, a billionaire and son of his rival and kill him afterwards, to avenge her mother. 'An eye for an eye,' he says.But now on her deathbed, Leona is required to confess her sin. How does one begin to do that? For as dastardly as the sin is, it is an act of love, loyalty, disobedience, and perceived fairness.How did she get here?Set against a background of real events, Colours of Hatred is a complex web of plots detailing how one woman moved from childhood through the fire and anvil of love, loss, longing, lust, and duty.

Obinna Udenwe is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer. The winner of the first edition of The Chinua Achebe Prize for Literature 2021 for his second book, 'Colours of Hatred' which was also a finalist for The NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2021. His first book, 'Satans & Shaitans' won the ANA Prize for Prose Fiction in 2015. Obinna Udenwe's stories have won The Prairie Schooner-Glenna Luschei Prize 2020, The Short Story is Dead Prize 2016 and was a finalist in the Prairie Schooner-Raz Schumakar Prize 2020. His story 'It Has to do With Emilia' was acquired for film & television in 2020 by Bridget Pickering at Bump films, shot in Yeoville, South Africa in 2021 and released as a motion picture in March 2022. His stories have appeared in Gutter Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Munyori Literary Journal, The Village Square Journal, Fiction 365, Brittle Paper, ANA Review, Ake Review, Expound Magazine, The Kalahari Review, The Short Story is Dead anthology Vol., 1 & 2, and many more. Obinna Udenwe loves literature and is the co-founder of The Village Square Journal. He enjoys travelling for work and pleasure, and to spend time with friends drinking and chatting about politics and literature and every other thing young men talk about. He lives in Abakaliki in southern Nigeria where he works as a writer, engineer, and farmer, and is very active in local politics.