@ Busboys and Poets 14th & V: Okey Ndibe - Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American

Upcoming Event
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm

A seasoned journalist and magazine editor, Ndibe came to the U.S. from Nigeria in 1988 to help Chinua Achebe launch African Commentary, which became a noted journal of ideas under Ndibe’s editorship. In his third book, Ndibe, also the author of the novels Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain, looks back over his immigration experience, from the shock of a racial profiling incident two weeks after his arrival, to his teaching experiences at Brown, Trinity College, and other institutions. The engaging wit and humor that captivated readers of Ndibe’s fiction is here as well, especially when he compares Nigerian and American social norms and stereotypes, contrasting the magic of Nigerian folktales with the magical thinking of Wall Street.

Busboys and Poets 14th & V
2021 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
Fiction & Poetry
Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian Amiercan By Okey Ndibe Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9781616957605
Availability: Special Order—Subject to Availability
Published: Soho Press - October 11th, 2016

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