Okey Ndibe: 3 books
Never Look an American in the Eye
A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian Amiercan
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The author of Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain tells his own immigrant’s tale, where what is lost in translation is often as hilarious as it is harrowing.
Okey Ndibe’s funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential—but...
by Okey Ndibe
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This debut novel from the author of the powerful, universally acclaimed Foreign Gods, Inc. looks at a woman’s drowning and the ensuing investigation in an emerging African nation.
In the country of Madia (based in part on Ndibe’s native Nigeria) a young prostitute runs into the sea and...
by Okey Ndibe
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
From a disciple of the late Chinua Achebe comes a masterful and universally acclaimed novel that is at once a taut, literary thriller and an indictment of greed’s power to subsume all things, including the sacred.
Foreign Gods, Inc., tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver...