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

The normalization of impunity

Last week, a twelve-person jury at the Southwark Crown Court in London convicted two Nigerian women on charges of facilitating extensive money laundering activities by former Governor James Onanefe Ibori of Delta State...

Memories of my father

Last Friday, May 28, was the 15th anniversary of the death of my father, Christopher Chidebe Ndibe, a man who was C.C. to his friends and, simply, C. to his wife. For me it’s somewhat hard to believe that so many years have rolled by since the passing of the most morally well-funded man I have ever known...

Madam Jonathan goes to Lebanon

For those who ever had doubts, Goodluck Jonathan is emerging as just another occupant of the office of president, one with little or no clue that his job is not a ticket to party all night and all day...

Where are the other Iboris?

Mention the name James Onanefe Ibori and many different emotions and impressions flood the Nigerian mind. The man is seen as a personification of arrogance and avarice. He’s perceived as an embodiment of the worst in the Nigerian “misruling” class...

Yar’Adua’s death and debt to history

Umaru Yar’Adua’s death last week at the age of 58 was not enough, in the end, to settle the man’s debt to history. One was not surprised that the man’s passing provoked that rather predictable brand of biographical revisionism that death encourages in us...

Police brutality and Onovo’s challenge

When Nigerians think about the disappointments of their perpetually infantile nation, they often focus narrowly on rigged elections and the abuses of their gluttonous public officials...

Ibori, Peter Odili, and Justice Buba

Several newspapers and online forums reported that Justice I.N. Buba of the Federal High Court in Asaba had issued an injunction prohibiting Ibori’s arrest. Buba has done it before...

The art of throwing money away

It’s always deeply painful when Africa achieves another distinction in the wrong sector. This time, it’s in the foolish art of throwing money away!

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