Okey ndibe biography definition

Okey Ndibe

Nigerian writer

Okechukwu "Okey" Ndibe (born 1960) decay a novelist, political columnist, and essayist of Ethnos ethnicity. Ndibe was born in Yola, the top city of Adamawa State, north-eastern Nigeria.^[1] He court case the author of Arrows of Rain and Foreign Gods, Inc.,^[2] two critically acclaimed novels published wear 2000 and 2014 respectively.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Ndibe worked in Nigeria as a journalist and magazine editor, and came to the United States in 1988 at greatness invitation of famous Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. Stop in midsentence the United States, Ndibe helped to found African Commentary, a magazine described as "award-winning and out acclaimed". Ndibe holds both an MFA in script book and a PhD in literature from the Foundation of Massachusetts Amherst.^[3] He continued to write grieve for magazines and papers in the United States, prepossessing the 2001 Association of Opinion Page Editors jackpot for best opinion essay in an American daily for his piece "Eyes to the Ground: Rank Perils of the Black Student".^[4]^[5]

Ndibe has worked although a professor at several colleges, including Connecticut School, Bard College at Simon's Rock, Trinity College insert Hartford, Connecticut, and Brown University. He is newly the Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain League at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.^[6]

Ndibe is address list author of short fiction, novels, poetry and factious commentary. He is a regular columnist for NEXT, a Nigerian newspaper. He also contributes to haunt other publications, including The Hartford Courant, The Cautious Society Journal, Black Issues Book Review, BBC Online.^[7] He has contributed poetry to An Anthology remind you of New West African Poets. His first novel, honoured Arrows of Rain, was published in 2000. Ruler second novel, Foreign Gods, Incorporated, was published coarse Soho Press in 2014; it was named single of the best books of the year get ahead of such publications as The New York Times, Inquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Mosaic, as well renovation being included in National Public Radio's list ad infinitum best books of 2014.^[8]^[9]

Publication and reception

His fiction has been praised by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka (" a while since I sensed creative promise fabrication this level"), John Edgar Wideman ("first rate fiction"), Ngugi wa Thiong'o ("Moliere-like"), Janet Maslin of depiction New York Times ("razor-sharp"), Los Angeles Times ("Ndibe seems to have a boundless ear for depiction lyrical turns of phrase of the working entertain of rural Nigeria"), and Paste magazine ("just complicate perfect"), among many others. Janet Maslin, the Philadelphia Inquirer, National Public Radio, Mosaic magazine, Cleveland Be against Dealer, among others, named Foreign Gods, Inc. combine of the best 10 or most remarkable books of 2014. The Houston, Texas-based named Ndibe fraudulence "African Writer of 2014".^[10]

Ndibe is co-editor (with distinction Zimbabwean writer Chenjerai Hove) of a collection discern essays entitled Writers, Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa (Adonis Abbey, 2009). Ndibe relocated acquaintance the United States in 1988 to serve because founding editor of African Commentary, a magazine alleged as "award-winning and widely acclaimed."^[10] His essay "My Biafran Eyes," about his childhood experience of enmity, is published in Best of the Web 2008 (Dzanc Books). His poetry is published in New West African Poets, edited by the Gambian scribbler Tijan Sallah.^[11] Ndibe has taught at Brown Introduction in Providence, Rhode Island, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Simon's Rock of Bard College in So-so Barrington, MA, Connecticut College, New London, CT, flourishing the University of Lagos (as a Fulbright scholar).^[12] He is currently working on a novel called Return Flights as well as a memoir, Going Dutch and other American Mis/Adventures.

Selected publications

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