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.
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Thoughts On Bakassi

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The National Association of Nigerian Students has vowed to defend Bakassi with their blood...
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Only A Short Walk…

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In London, when a helpful old English woman says “It’s ten minutes walk”, put on your jogging shoes…
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AIDS 2002 Barcelona: A Personal Perspective

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The Spanish Minister of Health was steadily booed throughout the ten odd minutes of her speech. She lost her temper and banged her fist on the lectern which only produced more jeers...
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Putting HIV on The Political Agenda

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Nigeria has one of the fastest growing epidemics in West Africa...
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Piccadilly Circus

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Fear has shattered the myth of brotherhood among Nigerians in London...
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We Thank God

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Life in Nigeria is so precarious and unstable that people are scared that saying things are fine may be tempting fate, in other words, an invitation to disaster.
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