Kizzi Nkwocha
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Kizzi Nkwocha is a media consultant and public relations
specialist based in the United Kingdom
.
He was born in Nigeria, eventually emigrating to the United Kingdom. At 21, he became the UK's youngest newspaper editor, editing the 10-edition Recorder Group in West London. After the Recorder, Nkwocha worked as programming editor of Broadcast Magazine
, owned by Emap
. He was also guest editor of international celebrity magazine, Society. He spent the last five of his journalistic years as a reporter at the News of the World
weekly tabloid newspaper.
As a public relations consultant Nkwocha, known for his flamboyant dress, served as a publicist for the Pakistan
i cricket
player Wasim Akram
; Baganda
king Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II
; multiple mum Mandy Allwood, who was pregnant with eight babies; Britain's oldest mum, Liz Buttle; mistress of President Bill Clinton
Gennifer Flowers
; Michael Perham, the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic single-handed, Dragons Den businessman, Levi Roots, the campaign group Jubilee 2000
; and the international Vass Foundation, a charitable organisation dedicated to tackling malaria and AIDS in the Third World.
Nkwocha has also presented a series of TV and radio programmes. In 2001 he was voted by The Voice newspaper one of the 100 most influential black people
in the United Kingdom. He has been the subject of a C4 documentary on publicity and was a character in the novel No Glove, No Love by Ron Shillingford. In 2006 one of his clients, Guy Goma
, became a worldwide celebrity after being mistakenly interviewed by the BBC on News 24. Nkwocha currently works alongside Andrew Beck
at PRhq.
Nkwocha is the author of Heavens Fire, the first book by an unsigned author to be made available for download onto mobile phones in the United Kingdom.
The novel was used by technology firm, Icue, to launch the UK's nationwide service allowing entire libraries of books to be downloaded onto handheld mobiles. Heavens Fire is an adventure novel unravelling the 3,000-year-old mystery of the lost scripture of Enoch
, Noah's great grandfather.
Heavens Fire was subsequently published by Apex Publishing and made available through booksellers across the UK and on the internet.
Public relations
Public relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....
specialist based in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
.
He was born in Nigeria, eventually emigrating to the United Kingdom. At 21, he became the UK's youngest newspaper editor, editing the 10-edition Recorder Group in West London. After the Recorder, Nkwocha worked as programming editor of Broadcast Magazine
Broadcast magazine
Broadcast is a weekly magazine for the United Kingdom television and radio industry. It covers a wide range of news and issues affecting the professional broadcast market in the UK. Broadcast has regular weekly sections covering News, Commissioning, Facilities, Analysis, Opinion, Interview,...
, owned by Emap
EMAP
Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences...
. He was also guest editor of international celebrity magazine, Society. He spent the last five of his journalistic years as a reporter at the News of the World
News of the World
The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, and at closure still had one of the highest English language circulations...
weekly tabloid newspaper.
As a public relations consultant Nkwocha, known for his flamboyant dress, served as a publicist for the Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
player Wasim Akram
Wasim Akram
Wasim Akram is a former Pakistani left arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman in cricketer and model. who represented the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket and One Day International matches....
; Baganda
Baganda
The Ganda are an ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda. Traditionally comprising 52 tribes the Ganda have a rich history and culture...
king Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II
Muwenda Mutebi II of Buganda
Ronald Edward Frederick Muwenda Kimera Mutebi II is the reigning Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda, a kingdom in modern-day Uganda. He is the thirty-sixth Kabaka of Buganda.-Claim to the throne:...
; multiple mum Mandy Allwood, who was pregnant with eight babies; Britain's oldest mum, Liz Buttle; mistress of President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
Gennifer Flowers
Gennifer Flowers
Gennifer Flowers is a model and actress who allegedly had a sexual relationship with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Prior to Bill Clinton's presidency, she also posed nude for Penthouse magazine and was an actress in two films and one TV show...
; Michael Perham, the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic single-handed, Dragons Den businessman, Levi Roots, the campaign group Jubilee 2000
Jubilee 2000
Jubilee 2000 was an international coalition movement in over 40 countries that called for cancellation of third world debt by the year 2000. This movement coincided with the Great Jubilee, the celebration of the year 2000 in the Catholic Church...
; and the international Vass Foundation, a charitable organisation dedicated to tackling malaria and AIDS in the Third World.
Nkwocha has also presented a series of TV and radio programmes. In 2001 he was voted by The Voice newspaper one of the 100 most influential black people
Black people
The term black people is used in systems of racial classification for humans of a dark skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups.Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class, socio-economic status also plays a...
in the United Kingdom. He has been the subject of a C4 documentary on publicity and was a character in the novel No Glove, No Love by Ron Shillingford. In 2006 one of his clients, Guy Goma
Guy Goma
Guy Goma is a business studies graduate from Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo who gained international fame when he was accidentally interviewed live on BBC News 24, a UK television news station, on Monday 8th May 2006.-The interview:...
, became a worldwide celebrity after being mistakenly interviewed by the BBC on News 24. Nkwocha currently works alongside Andrew Beck
Andrew Beck
Andrew Beck is a media consultant, public relations specialist and actor based in the United Kingdom.At 17, he was one of the youngest to be accepted into The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in London and received a scholarship from Anna Strasberg herself...
at PRhq.
Nkwocha is the author of Heavens Fire, the first book by an unsigned author to be made available for download onto mobile phones in the United Kingdom.
The novel was used by technology firm, Icue, to launch the UK's nationwide service allowing entire libraries of books to be downloaded onto handheld mobiles. Heavens Fire is an adventure novel unravelling the 3,000-year-old mystery of the lost scripture of Enoch
Enoch (ancestor of Noah)
Enoch is a figure in the Generations of Adam. Enoch is described as Adam's greatx4 grandson , the son of Jared, the father of Methuselah, and the great-grandfather of Noah...
, Noah's great grandfather.
Heavens Fire was subsequently published by Apex Publishing and made available through booksellers across the UK and on the internet.