Born of Nigerian parents in the Italian region of Marche, Achike Morgan is the second of three siblings in a family of five. He grew up in a hamlet called Collina, a place where the sun hardly ever sets, but always enquired about and craved the stories his parents would share about the ancestral land of Nigeria, a country he has now and then visited but which he always felt deeply his.
After moving to Ireland with his family at the age of 14, he completed his secondary schooling from St. Mary’s College, Dundalk, and later went on to graduate from the University of Galway, on the west coast of the country, with a Bachelor of Arts (Legal Studies & French).
It was while in his penultimate year of university, completing an assistantship in the city of Amiens (France) – where he taught English in a privately owned primary school – that he experienced the power of writing and developed a taste for literature. It is in fact at Gare du Nord, a renowned Parisian train station, that a coincidental encounter with a local mender begging for change spurred in him the blazing need to write on the complexity of human nature and interaction, which is one of the themes – aside from political, love, mental health etc. – that he enjoys writing most about in his realistic fiction works.
Achike’s debut novel, “Sunday Will Come!”, will be published at the end of 2024.