Kizzi Nkwocha

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Kizzi Nkwocha (b. Nigeria, ca. 1968) 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 Pakistani 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 fictional 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.

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