Newcastle Re-Elects its 1st Black Member of Parliament – Nigerian-born Chinyelu Onwurah
It’s a good day for Chinyelu Onwurah!
The people of Newcastle Central have re-elected their 1st black Member of Parliament – Chinyelu Onwurah. Chinyelu was first elected as the 1st black Member of Parliament in Newcastle in 2010 and was re-elected this year.
Expressing her gratitude and commitment to her role, she tweeted
She also shared some insight into her life via her website – www.chionwurahmp.com. She wrote;
My maternal grandfather was a sheet metal worker in the shipyards of the Tyne during the depression. My mother grew up in poverty in Garth Heads on the quayside.
In the fifties, she married my father, a Nigerian student at Newcastle Medical School. In 1965, I was born whilst they were living in Long Benton where my father had a dental practice.
I was still a baby when my father took us to live in Awka, Nigeria.
But two years later, the Biafran Civil War broke out, bringing famine with it and, as described vividly in an Evening Chronicle article in 1968, my mother, my brother and sister and I returned as refugees to Newcastle, whilst my father stayed on in the Biafran army.
We’re excited about her new role and wish her all the best!
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