Okey Ndibe

Okey Ndibe is a novelist, political columnist, and essayist. Of Igbo ethnicity, Ndibe was born in Yola, Nigeria. He is the author of Arrows of Rain and Foreign Gods, Inc., two critically acclaimed novels published in 2000 and 2014 respectively. Ndibe is one of the foremost respected and admired contributors to the social and political essence of Nigeria or lack of it.

Okey Ndibe was born in Yola, Nigeria. His father was a postal worker, and his mother a teacher. His early life in Nigeria was marked by the Biafran War, a subject that he later wrote about in an essay entitled My Biafran Eyes. At the end of the Biafran War, he finished his elementary school education in the town of Enugwu Ukwu and attended St. Michaels Secondary School, Nimo, in Anambra State, Nigeria.

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