Okey A Ndibe was born in Yola, Nigeria, in 1960. Ndibe has contributed poems to An Anthology of New West African Poets, edited by the Gambian poet, Tijan Sallah. He has also published essays in a number of North American, British and Nigerian magazines and writes a weekly column for the Guardian, Nigeria's most respected daily newspaper. After a distinguished career as a magazine editor in Nigeria, he moved to the US in 1988 to be the founding editor of African Commentary, an award-winning and widely acclaimed magazine published by the Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe. He is a visiting writer-in-residence and assistant professor of English at Connecticut College. Okey A Ndibe lives with his wife, Sheri Fafunwa-Ndibe, and their three children in West Hartford, Connecticut.
