Fri February 13, 2015
Award-Winning Journalist & Author Okey Ndibe at Books Inc. Opera Plaza
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A professor of African and African Diaspora literatures at Brown University, award-winning journalist and author Okey Ndibe discusses the re-issued edition of his humorous and poignant debut novel--which dramatizes the relationship between an individual and the modern African state--Arrows of Rain. In addition Okey introduces readers to his second novel Foreign Gods, Inc. With universal acclaim, and named a "Best Book" by Publisher's Weekly, GQ, and Flavorwire, Ndibe's latest work is a meditation on the dreams, promises and frustrations of the immigrant life in America.
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A professor of African and African Diaspora literatures at Brown University, award-winning journalist and author Okey Ndibe discusses the re-issued edition of his humorous and poignant debut novel--which dramatizes the relationship between an individual and the modern African state--Arrows of Rain. In addition Okey introduces readers to his second novel Foreign Gods, Inc. With universal acclaim, and named a "Best Book" by Publisher's Weekly, GQ, and Flavorwire, Ndibe's latest work is a meditation on the dreams, promises and frustrations of the immigrant life in America.
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