Okey Ndibe, author of the novel "Arrows of Rain", teaches African literature and African diaspora literature at Brown University. He earned an MFA and PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has taught at Connecticut College, Bard College at Simon s Rock, Trinity College (Connecticut), and the University of Lagos (as a Fulbright scholar). He also served on the editorial board of the "Hartford Courant", where his essays won national and state awards. He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with his wife, Sheri, and their three children.
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Okey Ndibe's funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential-but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency-African Commentary magazine. It recounts stories of Ndibe's relationship... SEE MORE