Bookcraft Africa organises multi-city tour for Okey Ndibe Book Launch
In the month of July, from the 9thto the 29th, 2017, the US-based Nigerian writer, Okey Ndibe, embarked on a book tour across a number of key Nigerian cities, to promote his recently published books: Never Look an American in the Eye (a memoir) and Foreign Gods Inc. (a work of fiction).
Okechukwu Ndibe, better known as Okey Ndibe is a novelist, political columnist, and essayist. He moved to the US to become the founding editor of African Commentary, a US-based international magazine published by the renowned Chinua Achebe. He later served as an editorial writer for the Hartford Courant, and subsequently, as a fellow at the Black Mountain Institute in Nevada. For many years, his opinion pieces have been published by The New York Times, BBC Online, Al Jazeera, the Financial Times, and the Nigerian Daily Times, as well as Sahara Reporters. He is the author of three novels, and with the Nigerian publication of his two most recent works, he joins critically-acclaimed authors such as Professor Wole Soyinka, Professor Femi Osofisan, and Professor Niyi Osundare on Bookcraft Africa‘s list of authors.
Foreign Gods Inc. (first published in the US in 2014) tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver who, driven by poverty and desperation, sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war deity from his home village to sell to a New York gallery. US National Public Radio named it one of the best books of 2014.
Never Look an American in the Eye (also published in the US in 2016) is a memoir that tells of Okey Ndibe’s move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential–but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency–African Commentary magazine. The book recounts stories of Ndibe’s relationships with Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and other literary figures, and examines American stereotypes about Africa and Africans, and vice versa, all together in this funny, charming and encompassing book about the making of the writer, Okey Ndibe.
The author shares his story, and reading from both books as he tours Lagos, Ibadan, Awka, Enugu, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Ibadan
Photo Speaks: Final book tour in Ibadan
