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

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 to his CV. From prison, Mr. George headed straight for the Cathedral Church of Christ in Marina, Lagos...

Is Jonathan Playing For Ibori?

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 welcome any occasion when a foreign jurisdiction indicts a Nigerian official for breaking their money laundering laws...

Nigerians Dream of Egypt

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 evidence so far is that God isn’t impressed. A people with the extraordinary natural resources and variety of human talent that Nigeria boasts has no reason to bother God for anything else...

My Suffering Is Worse Than Yours

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 lasting doom this time around. Yet, after witnessing the impunity that passed for party primaries, it’s difficult to be hopeful in the prospects of credible elections in April...

My Role As Enemy Of The State

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 going after those who ambush innocents with bombs, guns and machetes, the SSS diverts itself with intimidating principled commentators on national affairs...

An “Ibori-tized” Nation

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 a grueling cross-examination. Theresa Ibori is being tried in London for aiding and abetting her husband’s money laundering during the eight years he presided over the affairs of Delta State...

Getting It Right in 2011

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...

My Debt to Nigeria’s Two Literary Giants

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 a cheery 50th anniversary...

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