This is the story of Kill-we Nwachukwu an Igbo Superman

Uzoma Nwaozuzu Nwachukwu, was an Igbo Superman. He hailed from Mbaitolu in Imo state, South Eastern Nigeria. He was born in 1931 and died October 31, 1992.

He was nicknamed “Killi-we” Nwachukwu because of his enormous natural strength.

Killi-we Nwachukwu was for more than three decades celebrated as a homegrown Nigerian superman. Some of his legendary feats of strength included lifting of buses, having cement blocks crushed on his head, allowing cars to drive over his body, using his teeth to carry bags of cement, using bare hands to hammer nails, breaking coconuts on his head, six people standing on his body at the same time,

. He was born in the early 40s in Imo state. He got the nick name 'Killi We' after a fight with a certain man. Story has it that the man refused to pay him for his services as a truck pusher. Nwachukwu then carried the man's goods from either the market to the man's house.

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After dropping off the goods, the man refused to pay claiming the charge was too high. He tried to walk away and Nwachukwu grabbed him by the hand insisting he must pay. A fight ensued and he pinned the man to the ground.

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The man's wife came with a wooden pestle to assist her husband. Nwachukwu snatched it from her, lifted the woman up and pinned her on top of her husband on the floor. Powerless, she started screaming, "Killi we Nwachukwu, Killi we Nwachukwu" meaning, 'Nwachukwu, Kill us'".

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Killwe went around Nigeria performing paid stunts and left many legends behind him in life and death. He was for more than 20 years celebrated as a homegrown Nigerian ‘Superman’.

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Some of his legendary feats of strength included lifting multiple people, buses, allowing concrete blocks be crushed on his head and cars to drive over his body. He claimed his strength came from Utara Akpu (Cassava Fufu).

Like the biblical Solomon, Kili-we Nwachukwu had six wives and seven concubines including a Spanish woman whom he met on one of his world tours but returned back to Europe upon seeing his other wives. He has 19 surviving children.