Okey Ndibe is the author of Arrows of Rain and Foreign Gods, Inc.
12 Facts About Okey Ndibe
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Okey Ndibe worked in Nigeria as a journalist and magazine editor, and came to the United States in 1988 at the invitation of famous Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe.
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Okey Ndibe holds both an MFA in writing and a PhD in literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Okey Ndibe continued to write for magazines and papers in the United States, winning the 2001 Association of Opinion Page Editors award for best opinion essay in an American newspaper for his piece "Eyes to the Ground: The Perils of the Black Student".
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Okey Ndibe has worked as a professor at several colleges, including Connecticut College, Bard College at Simon's Rock, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Brown University.
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Okey Ndibe is currently the Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Okey Ndibe is an author of short fiction, novels, poetry and political commentary.
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Okey Ndibe is a regular columnist for NEXT, a Nigerian newspaper.
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Okey Ndibe contributes to many other publications, including The Hartford Courant, The Fabian Society Journal, Black Issues Book Review, BBC Online.
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Okey Ndibe has contributed poetry to An Anthology of New West African Poets.
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Okey Ndibe is co-editor of a collection of essays entitled Writers, Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa.
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Okey Ndibe has taught at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Simon's Rock of Bard College in Great Barrington, MA, Connecticut College, New London, CT, and the University of Lagos.