Okey Ndibe, author of the highly acclaimed Arrows of Rain (Heinemann, 2000), teaches fiction and literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has also taught at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut and Simon’s Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Okey has served on the editorial board of the Hartford Courant and was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Lagos, Nigeria from 2001 – 2002. He has given readings, talks and lectures in many countries including Japan, Uganda, Ghana, England, Sweden and the United States. His essay titled “My Biafran Eyes” is published in Best of the Web 2008. He writes a weekly column for NEXT, a Nigerian-based newspaper. In 2001, the American Association of Opinion Page Editors selected his piece “Eyes to the Ground: The Perils of the Black Student” as the best opinion piece in an American newspaper.
He is completing another novel, foreign gods, incorporated, as well as a memoir titled An African Doing Dutch in America.
Okey joins us in London for a series of creative evenings on the 31st of July, 5th of August and 7th of August 2009. Full itinerary to follow shortly.
To book a place please contact admin@account3.org.uk
