So she called me the other day, fruit of the loins of the son of my grandpa’s brother. And she said, you must come visit us, you must bring your family to...
Author - Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
Ikhide Roland Ikheloa is the Chief of Staff to the Board of Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, Maryland, (MCPS) USA, where he has been working since 1987, beginning as Business Manager at Gaithersburg High School and as a Budget and Management Specialist for MCPS. He is a bachelor's degree holder in Biochemistry from the University of Benin and an MBA degree from the University of Mississippi in Oxford Mississippi.
“No European writer could have written ‘Things Fall Apart,’ ” says Ernest Emenyonu, who chairs the department of Africana studies at...
August 2007. I am alive. I just shook myself off a journey that I was definitely unprepared for. Ogun has sacrificed a mangy dog on behalf of my shivering...
DISCLAIMER: I won’t lie; I have a soft spot for the writer Jude Dibia. I have never met him in person, but there is something about his spirit that breaks my...
Book Review: The Virgin of Flames by Chris Abani. 291 pp. Penguin Books. The writer Chris Abani has earned a well deserved reputation for telling...
The Horsemen and other poems 73 pp Africa World Press, Inc. This one is for Mr. V. O. Thomas, my English Literature teacher, “Fat head! Read! Read Abiku...
Measuring Time By Helon Habila. 383 pages. W. W. Norton Company. Paper Helon Habila is one formidable writer – of short stories. With the short story as a...
I write this for James Meredith, the distinguished first black student of OLEMISS, and for John Hawkins, the distinguished first black Cheerleader of OLEMISS...
So the other day, my friend Okwy Okeke called me from Richmond Virginia. And he said, Oga Ikhide, Professor Tanure Ojaide is doing a book reading in my neck of...
Jazzy Blues The river is not the same river That was here When I held you close. The river is gone. The secret is here The river is gone. The secret is here...