Okey ndibe biography of christopher

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A Paean to the Son of Idoto: My Thoughts about Christopher Okigbo

I might as well admit it at the beginning: I am no poet. Although I have scribbled some lines over the years, whether they stand up to poetic standards is in the lap of the Muse. Going by the parameters of the Nigerian literary environment where a single stone thrown in the sky will land on the heads of a thousand poets, I may not pass muster. I prefer wrestling with Wole Soyinka’s JERO PLAYS, THE MAN DIED, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN and AKE to his poetic offerings.

So what am I doing with the lord of African poetry himself, Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo? A lot even though I do not stand naked with him before Mother Idoto; though I hear his bell ringing as the poet affirmed that he would go to hell unless he shut up; though he said he was a shrub among the poplars, needing more roots, thirsting for sunlight.

My first encounter with Okigbo was in a 1997 edition of THE SOURCE magazine where I read snippets of the then unpublished biography of the poet by Obi Nwakanma. I was hooked. Later, when an American friend sent me a copy of THIRSTING FOR SUNLIGHT following e-mail exchanges about the fireworks ignited by Okigbo’s soul-brother, Chinua Achebe with his last book, I felt like a junkie who has graduated from lo

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Book Summary and Reviews of Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe

Media Reviews

"Starred Review. Neither fable nor melodrama, nor what's crudely niched as "world literature," the novel traces the story of a painstakingly-crafted protagonist and his community caught up in the inescapable allure of success defined in Western terms." - Publishers Weekly

"A close associate of the late, great Chinua Achebe, Okey Ndibe adds his voice to a new generation of writers." - Library Journal

"Starred Review. Ndibe writes of cultural clash in a moving way that makes Ike's march toward disaster inexorable and ineffably sad." - Kirkus

"With piercing psychological insight and biting commentary on the challenges faced by immigrants, the novel is as full-blooded and fierce as the war deity who drives the story." - Booklist

"We clearly have a fresh talent at work here. It is quite a while since I sensed creative promise on this level." - Wole Soyinka, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

"Foreign Gods, Inc. reads like the narrative of a taxi-driving Faust in modern Nigeria and America. With Moliere-like humorous debunking of religious hypocrisy and rancid materialism, it teems with characters and situations that make you laugh in order not to cry." - Ngugi wa Thiong'o, author o