Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)

Ikhide R. Ikheloa has written some of the most popular articles on this website and the Internet today under his pseudonym "Nnamdi." Ikheloa who calls his writings "moonlighting" also writes poetry.

Every Day Is For The Thief

There are many things to like about this little book that purrs gently, ever so gently. The book exudes the quiet confidence of a writer properly centered in the beauty and challenges of his being...

American Diary: My Meeting With President Umaru Musa Yar’adua

Ikhide, this is important, please act like a big man when you meet the President, behave yourself, don’t say stupid things like “Why are you sitting on a stolen mandate, Mr. President?” you know how you get when your tongue escapes your mouth!

The Balance of Our Stories

It is a great time to be a connoisseur of Nigerian literature. There are all these Nigerian writers doing some really exciting work and there are not enough hours in the day to consume all their wares...

The Balance of Our Stories (2)

It is a great time to be a connoisseur of Nigerian literature. There are all these Nigerian writers doing some really exciting work and there are not enough hours in the day to consume all their wares...

Restless Diary: Yellow-Yellow Rivers of Dreams

In Yellow-Yellow, we see a Nigeria rotting in place as its people desperate for affirmation and survival engage in an elaborate okoso system of getting whatever they need  in return for whatever they can give...

In the Shadows of Unbridled Change

If Dibia’s book does not spark debate in Africa it is probably because that continent has a crushing burden of challenges that make the issue of homosexuality look trivial...

Obi Nwakanma’s The Horsemen and other poems reviewed

In The Horsemen and other poems, Nwakanma gallops through many seasons of war, ploughs through many cemeteries of fallen dreams, scales okra covered walls and chases dreams that never left our huts in the first place. And the reader comes upon this land of alien deities, and lands exhausted on the unwelcome mats of these strange people that worship feuding gods...

The Virgins Of Flaming Change

I must say, after reading The Virgin of Flames that I heartily recommend it to all lovers of good literature. This book is a delightful riot of sizzling prose, robust poetry and keep-me-up-at-night issues...

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