Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe,
author of the novels Arrows of Rain and Foreign Gods, Inc., teaches African literature and African diaspora literature at Brown University. He earned an MFA and PhD from the University of
Massachusetts–Amherst and has taught at Connecticut College, Bard College–Simon’s Rock, Trinity College (Connecticut), and the University of Lagos (as a Fulbright
scholar). He also served on the editorial board of the Hartford Courant, where his essays won
national and state awards.