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Okey Ndibe

Okey Ndibe

Okey Ndibe teaches fiction and African literature at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He is the author of the novel, Arrows of Rain and co-editor (with Chenjerai Hove) of Writers, Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa. After studying business management at the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu (Nigeria), Ndibe earned an MFA and PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Ndibe was the founding editor of African Commentary, a magazine published in the U.S. by novelist Chinua Achebe, author of the classic novel, Things Fall Apart. His lively, witty and intellectually stimulating style has made him a highly sought after speaker on African and African American literature and politics. Ndibe is finishing his second novel titled Foreign Gods, Incorporated and also working on a memoir of his life in the US. His website. Twitter: @ OkeyNdibe

  • Bode George, God, and a Priest

    by Okey Ndibe March 1, 2011
    by Okey Ndibe

    Bode George, ex-military man and ex-chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, left Kirikiri prison last Saturday – having served a two-year sentence for corruption and earned the addition of ex-convict …

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  • Is Jonathan Playing For Ibori?

    by Okey Ndibe February 22, 2011
    by Okey Ndibe

    We should insist that all traitors of the Nigerian people be held to account, in Nigeria and elsewhere. But since some Nigerian judges are blinder than bats, we ought to …

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  • Nigerians Dream of Egypt

    by Okey Ndibe February 17, 2011
    by Okey Ndibe

    Ask many a Nigerian what it would take to turn her country around, and you’re likely to get this answer: “Only God can solve the problems of this country.” The …

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  • My Suffering Is Worse Than Yours

    by Okey Ndibe January 26, 2011
    by Okey Ndibe

    In three months, Nigerians will go to the polls again. Everybody I spoke to – in Lagos, Asaba, Awka, Enugu and Abuja – was certain that fraudulent elections could spell …

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  • My Role As Enemy Of The State

    by Okey Ndibe January 18, 2011
    by Okey Ndibe

    Nigeria is in the throes of a grave and quickly worsening violence. The resources of the state ought to be husbanded to confront this burgeoning virulent threat. But instead of …

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  • An “Ibori-tized” Nation

    by Okey Ndibe November 8, 2010
    by Okey Ndibe

    Last week was simply terrible for former Governor James Onanefe Ibori and his wife, Theresa Nkoyo Ibori. In a London court, an enterprising, no-nonsense Crown prosecutor put Mrs. Ibori through …

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  • Getting It Right in 2011

    by Okey Ndibe November 1, 2010
    by Okey Ndibe

    I suspect that most Nigerians are almost exclusively riveted by the unfolding drama of who’s going to emerge president, by hook or crook, in next year’s election…

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  • My Debt to Nigeria’s Two Literary Giants

    by Okey Ndibe October 26, 2010
    by Okey Ndibe

    Two years ago, I drove from my home in central Connecticut to the quiescent country precincts of Annandale-on-Hudson to visit author Chinua Achebe, whose novel Things Fall Apart was enjoying …

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  • Babs Fafunwa: The Man Who Kept His Name

    by Okey Ndibe October 18, 2010
    by Okey Ndibe

    How could a man so graceful and rich in his humanity, so accomplished yet so gregarious and approachable, a man possessed of the deepest, most resonant laughter I ever heard …

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  • Nigeria’s Dark, Bloody October

    by Okey Ndibe October 5, 2010
    by Okey Ndibe

    If anybody needed some dire sign that Nigeria has little to show for the first fifty years of its life, a particularly disturbing and bloody one was given last Friday…

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  • Nigeria: An Adolescent At Fifty

    by Okey Ndibe September 27, 2010
    by Okey Ndibe

    What meaning is to be assigned to the fact that, in three days, Nigeria will mark fifty years as an “independent” nation?

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  • Governor Akpabio’s War Against Children

    by Okey Ndibe September 21, 2010
    by Okey Ndibe

    Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom is in danger of doing something that’s unforgivably evil. In the name of protecting the image of his state, he has set out to …

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  • Jonathan’s New Men

    by Okey Ndibe September 14, 2010
    by Okey Ndibe

    Jonathan’s new picks for the helms of the various services must realize that the timing of their appointment helps feed the perception that they are being positioned to facilitate rigging. …

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  • Going to Bob Marley’s Country

    by Okey Ndibe September 7, 2010
    by Okey Ndibe

    It was for me a dream fulfilled when my family and I arrived in Montego Bay, Jamaica on August 17 for a weeklong vacation. Ever since my secondary school days, …

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  • Obasanjo as Babangida’s Best Issue

    by Okey Ndibe August 31, 2010
    by Okey Ndibe

    One sad tendency in Nigerian politics is the habit of arguing that one mediocre politician has a better record than another mediocre colleague…

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  • Jets, Killed Bills, And Other Pleasures Of Power

    by Okey Ndibe August 16, 2010
    by Okey Ndibe

    The major reason political races in Nigeria are marked by high voltage violence is that occupants of political offices see themselves, and are seen, as lottery winners…

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