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

On Yet Another Encounter With The SSS

True to my suspicion, the immigration officer took one look at my passport, asked me to hold on, and then whispered to an agent of the SSS. Soon, I was ushered to a seat just behind the immigration kiosks and asked to wait...

Quarter Past Time For Nigeria

In several levels, it’s bad news that Mr. Jonathan’s handlers have their sights set on 2015, deny it as they may. Give the devil his due: the PDP has no equal in the department of power grab. It’s a party that desires power for the sake of power...

Greatness Nigeriana

Those who draw their meal vouchers from the disastrous, blood-soaked project called Nigeria – among them politicians, pastors, imams, fuel marketers, enablers of fuel marketers, friends of fuel marketers, civil servants who gorge on pension funds, and “settled” ex-militants – often claim that Nigeria is marching toward greatness...

Charles Taylor, Boko Haram, And The Fire This Time

The same day that the murderer of Monrovia was convicted at The Hague, Nigerians awoke to yet another attack by the dreaded Boko Haram. This time, the group targeted a building in Kaduna that houses three of Nigeria’s major newspapers...

Fuel Subsidy Monsters Unmasked; Time For Action

Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan and his economic team finally ran out of excuses for inaction on the massive swindle of Nigeria by some crooked fuel marketers and their bureaucratic enablers...

Why I Won’t Write About Ibori

I’m staunchly determined not to write about the sentencing, today, of former Governor James Onanefe Ibori in a UK court. There are sound reasons not to dwell on the subject of Ibori’s troubles...

A Parable of the President’s Church

Most big Nigerian politicians encounter no law – divine or secular – they feel tempted to observe. In fact, to be a prominent politician is to be above all laws, God’s and man’s alike...

Nigeria’s Dictatorship Fantasy

Until the institution of transparent elections take root in Nigeria, the minimal expectations of accountability by elected officials is bound to remain a mirage...

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