Ayo Oyeku is an Ebedi International Residency Fellow and a Humanitarian Leadership Fellow. His first children’s book was selected by World Bank (Nigeria) for distribution across libraries in Nigeria. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Golden Baobab Prize finalist, and has won the Ezenwa Ohaeto Prize for fiction, as well as the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Children’s Literature. In 2024, he emerged as a finalist for the Nigeria Prize for Literature. He is a contributor to World Kid Lit and EuroLit.