Cheluchi Onyemelukwe is a Nigerian–Canadian author and academic. She is best known for her 2019 family saga novel The Son of the House which she won the Nigeria Prize for Literature awards for in 2021. She is also a Professor of Law at Babcock University, where she served formerly as an assistant professor. In 2019, she won the award for the best international fiction book at the Sharjah International Book Fair. In 2021, she won the SprinNG women authors prize. Her novel was also nominated for the Giller Prize in 2021.

Nigeria
2022
ISBN 9788870919516
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity and Culture They Know
2021
ISBN 9780008469269
Health Research Governance in Africa
2018
ISBN 9781351713047
The son of the house
2019
ISBN 9789785587494
Son of the House
2021
ISBN 9781459747081