Unaegbu, Jeff is a prolific writer, seasoned editor and trained Mass Communicator, He has authored 20 books, published numerous articles and produced twenty video documentaries. His 512-paged Freedom in Our Bones, first-ever 44-year history of the Students’ Union Government of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, was second runner-up in the NUC-organized NURESDEF Arts/ Humanities (Research category) in year 2008 and the only existing book-size history of students unionism in Nigeria. His Ode on Lagos, adjudged the longest published poem by a Nigerian in a Newswatch magazine book review of April 2007, was published in his third-year as an undergraduate in 2005. The book was second runner-up in the ANA/ Cadbury $2000 Prize (year 2011) and first runner-up in the NUC-organized NURESDEF Arts/ Humanities (Research category) in year 2012. His Origins of the NYSC is the first ever full history of the National Scheme, partly written during his service year in 2007. He is an African Studies Association of the United Kingdom Travel Fellowship Recipient (ASAUK Writing Workshop for African Scholars), Osun State University, September 2011.
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