Ike Anya

Ike Anya is a Nigerian public healh physician and writer currently based in the United Kingdom. Founding Secretary of the Abuja Literary Society, he is co-editor of The Weaverbird Collection of New Nigerian Writing to be published by Farafina this year. His poetry, essays, and short fiction have been published in the UK, Nigeria, America, and India.
Interviews & Profiles

Cyril Nri – Nigerian born star on British TV

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Is there a conspiracy to put black actors and writers down?
Life Abroad

Picador Africa: New Voice launched in London

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It was a summer evening and the atrium soon filled with men clad in the almost obligatory linen suits, tan, blue, grey and green and women in jewel-coloured light summery dresses. I was in the right place...
Life Abroad

The Future is Orange

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As the six authors posed for photographs holding their books, the magnitude of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's achievement struck me. She looked almost incongruous, out of place - this young black woman in the line up of largely white middle-aged women...
Introspective

The Two Johnnies – A Tribute

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“I am a fag, a dirty stinking fag, I am to be seen and not to be heard. I come from the bush village of X where we eat frogs toads and rats..."
Arts & Books

An Evening With Rageh Omaar, the BBC’s Scud Stud

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The Iraqis knew, unlike many in the West that capturing Saddam was not the end, that more lay ahead...
Life Abroad

Journey Home

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When we landed in Lagos, the passengers applauded loudly, although it was unclear if it was the efficiency of the pilot, or the sheer relief of being back home that was being acknowledged. My neighbour nudged her son excitedly and said “ See, we are in Africa, beautiful Africa...”
Life Abroad

The Best Way to Help Africa is to Leave it Alone

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Africa should be left alone because the history of Western influence and intervention has been on the balance overwhelmingly negative, beginning with the missionaries who wanted to help the “poor, sad and hungry people of Africa” to the aid-industry which followed it...
Arts & Books

Heritage Premieres in London

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Asked why he has not ventured into the burgeoning home video market at the UK premiere of his new movie, veteran filmmaker Ladi Ladebo reveals that he “hates the idea of going to video”. He asserts that celluloid is “cleaner and requires a different discipline…"
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