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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

  • Emperor Buhari, or Plain Poor Communicator?

    by Okey Ndibe January 6, 2016
    by Okey Ndibe

    As Muhammadu Buhari ran for the fourth—and decisive—time for the Nigerian Presidency, his handlers cast him as a man purged of the dictatorial tendencies and inflexible disposition that marked his …

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  • Forget Dasukigate: It’s Us-gate

    by Okey Ndibe December 30, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    For the past several weeks, Nigerians on social media have made a big sport of what we’ve styled “Dasukigate—with an imitative eye to the Richard Nixon-era Watergate. The made-in-Nigeria Dasukigate …

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  • Igwe Osita Agwuna 111: Time We Honored Greatness

    by Okey Ndibe December 27, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    It is rather fortuitous that Igwe Osita Agwuna 111, who for five decades reigned as Eze of the town of Enugwu Ukwu and Igwe of Umunri, was born in December …

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  • Why (Not) Biafra

    by Okey Ndibe December 15, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    I believe that a nation need not be a fixed, immutable entity, but a living organism, susceptible (in keeping with laid out procedures and according to the wish of its …

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  • Biafra as Nightmare and Fantasy

    by Okey Ndibe December 8, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    I have been distressed beyond words by what has crystallized as an agitation for Biafra’s divorce from Nigeria. I am disturbed that this agitation has become another occasion for the …

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  • Eating Our Ponmo Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    by Okey Ndibe December 1, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    Occasionally it becomes one’s fortune to read a statement that so closely captures one’s thinking about an issue. When that happens, one is freed from the burden of finding one’s …

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  • Where the Heck Is the Money?

    by Okey Ndibe November 24, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    Nigeria’s is a fascinating story of a corrupt country without a single corrupt person. In late September 2006, Nuhu Ribadu, the pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission …

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  • Praying for Diezani and the Rest of Us

    by Okey Ndibe November 17, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    Had ISIS not shocked the world by sponsoring a spree of deadly attacks at six locations in Paris last Friday, killing at least 128 people, the Nigerian social media space …

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  • Chuma Nwokolo’s Great Game Against Corruption

    by Okey Ndibe November 13, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    If you’re an enlightened Nigerian but don’t know who Chuma Nwokolo is, you should be sorry. He’s one of the most engaging people I have ever met in person, a …

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  • Modest Proposals on Corruption

    by Okey Ndibe November 3, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    Last week, I exchanged a series of messages on Facebook with a young man who accused me of exhibiting “sentiments” and “self-interest” in my column titled “Buhari and the Syndrome …

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  • Buhari and the Syndrome of Sameness

    by Okey Ndibe October 28, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration may have fallen prey to the political syndrome of sameness. In other words, his dispensation may well be firmly set to run on the same track …

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  • What Alamieyeseigha’s Death Means

    by Okey Ndibe October 14, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    Forget what the objective facts are, former Governor Diepreye Solomon Peter (DSP) Alamieyeseigha, who died last week at 62 years, is a candidate for official veneration. The fact is that, …

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  • Buhari and the Enemy Called Time

    by Okey Ndibe October 7, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    Last week, when he finally unveiled a partial list of his proposed cabinet, President Muhammadu Buhari also revealed—even if inadvertently—that one of his biggest enemies bears the name “Time.” It …

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  • Why I Will Not Write About Saraki’s Trial

    by Okey Ndibe September 30, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    Friends and fans have pestered me lately with one or two questions. What do you think about the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki for alleged false declaration of assets? …

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  • Why I’ll Sue My Mother

    by Okey Ndibe September 22, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    My ninety-year-old mother has damaged my pristine image, and I am shopping for a lawyer to sue her. So, dear reader: if you happen to know a ruthless, take-no-prisoner’s lawyer, …

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  • Let Pensioners Eat Sand

    by Okey Ndibe September 16, 2015
    by Okey Ndibe

    One’s first reaction on reading some newspaper headlines out of Nigeria is one of incredulity. It simply can’t be true, one declares. Such was my reaction last week when I …

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