Do NOT copy John Grisham. And as you write a story, imagine that your parents and uncles and aunties and relatives will NEVER read it. You are more likely to …
Ike Anya
Ike Anya
Ike Anya is a Nigerian public healh physician and writer currently based in the United Kingdom. Founding Secretary of the Abuja Literary Society, he is co-editor of The Weaverbird Collection of New Nigerian Writing to be published by Farafina this year. His poetry, essays, and short fiction have been published in the UK, Nigeria, America, and India.
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Ike Anya attended a symposium on Nigerian Arts and Crafts organised by the Nigerian Field Society, UK Branch. A report…
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There was a supposed embargo on employment, but on an almost weekly bases, new staff joined, almost invariably related to some government official or other…
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Bereaved families often feel not enough has been done to save their relation…
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Serious doubts are raised over whether Equiano ever visited Africa…
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My father is away at the warfront. Each time there is news of fresh casualties, my mother's heart tumbles. So many of her friends have been widowed…
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The cream of Nigeria’s political and intellectual class had gathered to do honour to their own, when a message came from the SSS…The book launch could not be allowed to …
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“I can’t write about Princess Diana, as I never met her or moved in those circles. I write about university graduates working as cab drivers and issues like that”
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The National Association of Nigerian Students has vowed to defend Bakassi with their blood…
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In London, when a helpful old English woman says “It’s ten minutes walk”, put on your jogging shoes…
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The Spanish Minister of Health was steadily booed throughout the ten odd minutes of her speech. She lost her temper and banged her fist on the lectern which only produced …
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Nigeria has one of the fastest growing epidemics in West Africa…
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Fear has shattered the myth of brotherhood among Nigerians in London…
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Life in Nigeria is so precarious and unstable that people are scared that saying things are fine may be tempting fate, in other words, an invitation to disaster.