Okey Ndibe is a novelist, poet, political activist, born in 1960, in Yola, Nigeria.
He teaches fiction and African literature at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He is the author of the novel, Arrows of Rain, and is finishing his second novel titled Foreign Gods, Incorporated, and is a highly sought after speaker on African and African American literature and politics. He was the founding editor of African Commentary, a magazine published in the U.S. by novelist Chinua Achebe.
He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. His piece titled "Eyes to the Ground: The Perils of the Black Student" won the 2001 Association of Opinion Page Editors award for best opinion essay in an American newspaper. He also won a best opinion piece award from the Society of Professional Journalists, Connecticut Chapter.
Ndibe has taught at Connecticut College in New London, CT, and Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, MA. He writes a weekly column for The Sun of Nigeria, and contributes to several publications in the U.S., England, and elsewhere, including Hartford Courant, The Fabian Society Journal, Black Issues Book Review, BBC Online, www.guernicamag.com and www.drunkenboat.com.
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