Never Look an American in the Eye
A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American
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Okey Ndibe's funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential - but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency - African Commentary magazine. It recounts stories of Ndibe's relationships with Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and other literary figures; examines the differences between Nigerian and American etiquette and politics; recalls an incident of racial profiling just 13 days after he arrived in the US, in which he was mistaken for a bank robber; considers American stereotypes about Africa (and vice versa); and juxtaposes African folktales with Wall Street trickery. All these stories and more come together in a generous, encompassing book about the making of a writer and a new American.
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Reading My Father
- A Memoir
- De: Alexandra Styron
- Narrado por: Alexandra Styron
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Alexandra Styron's parents—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written with humor, compassion, and grace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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William Styron Ranks...
- De Douglas en 12-22-13
De: Alexandra Styron
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The Red-Haired Woman
- A Novel
- De: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrado por: John Lee, Katharine Lee McEwan
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
On the outskirts of a town 30 miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before - not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend on each other and exchange stories reflecting disparate views of the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Drags On
- De T. Conrad en 10-25-17
De: Orhan Pamuk
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Dreams from My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 590
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 510
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 506
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a Black African father and a White American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a Black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- De Gene R. en 10-26-21
De: Barack Obama
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,021
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 910
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 911
When Hisham Matar was a 19-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime's most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison in Libya. Hisham would never see him again. But he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. "Hope," as he writes, "is cunning and persistent." Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells were empty, and there was no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returned with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he'd go back to again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Touching memoir. Consider hard copy
- De Joschka Philipps en 02-22-18
De: Hisham Matar
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My Life with Bob
- Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
- De: Pamela Paul
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens, Pamela Paul
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for 28 years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk - reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob. Bob is Paul's Book of Books, a journal that records every book she's ever read.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An uncanny mirror and a celebration of book love
- De Cherilyn Parsons en 07-28-19
De: Pamela Paul
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Reading Like a Writer
- De: Francine Prose
- Narrado por: Nanette Savard
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 233
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 145
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire listeners to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Practical, literate, generous
- De Gare en 04-13-08
De: Francine Prose
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The Pendulum
- A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
- De: Julie Lindahl
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 225
This powerful memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' role in the Third Reich, as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the story - the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through the generations - emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional
- De Jean en 01-14-19
De: Julie Lindahl
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Ordinary Light
- A Memoir
- De: Tracy K. Smith
- Narrado por: Tracy K. Smith
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 162
Tracy K. Smith has a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be Black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies a bushel to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply spoken - poetic
- De CarolynneRHarris en 04-27-15
De: Tracy K. Smith
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The Voice is All
- The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
- De: Joyce Johnson
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
In The Voice Is All, Joyce Johnson - coauthor of the classic memoir Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac - brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac's French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kerouac's Voice
- De Robert L. Stofel en 09-26-12
De: Joyce Johnson
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Flesh Wounds
- De: Richard Glover
- Narrado por: Richard Glover
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family...Richard Glover's favourite dinner-party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?' It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed toy collector.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a Meaningful Reflection
- De Awarenessing en 11-28-15
De: Richard Glover
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Distant Star
- De: Roberto Bolano
- Narrado por: Walter Krochmal
- Duración: 4 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Omg
- De Sierra en 08-03-16
De: Roberto Bolano
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And So It Goes
- Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
- De: Charles J. Shields
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
New York Times best-selling author and biographer Charles J. Shields crafts this fascinating portrait of literary icon Kurt Vonnegut. The first authorized biography of the influential American writer, And So It Goes examines Vonnegut’s life, from his childhood to his death in 2007, and explores how the author changed the conversation of American literature.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Probably only for die hard Vonnegut fans
- De Watery M en 12-22-12
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Without You, There Is No Us
- My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- De: Suki Kim
- Narrado por: Janet Song
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 935
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 816
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 816
Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields - except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST).
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4 out of 5 stars
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The King and I meets Mary Poppins
- De Michael en 02-22-15
De: Suki Kim
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Marina and Lee
- The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- De: Priscilla Johnson McMillan
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray, Joseph Finder
- Duración: 24 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Marina and Lee is one of the best and truest audiobooks about the Kennedy assassination. Priscilla Johnson McMillan came to the story with a unique knowledge of the two main characters. In the 1950s she knew Kennedy well for a time when he was hospitalized with Addison's disease. She talked to him frequently, brought him books, knew his wife, and formed a strong opinion of the sort of man he was. What is astonishing is that she also knew Lee Harvey Oswald.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now I know why he did it
- De Rodd en 06-09-14
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Daring
- My Passages - A Memoir
- De: Gail Sheehy
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Candid, insightful, and powerful, Daring: My Passages is the story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared - to walk New York City streets with hookers and pimps to expose violent prostitution; to march with civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland as British paratroopers opened fire; to seek out Egypt's president Anwar Sadat when he was targeted for death after making peace with Israel.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed unexpectedly
- De Corinne O'Rourke en 09-06-23
De: Gail Sheehy
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Fire Road
- The Napalm Girl's Journey Through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and Peace
- De: Kim Phuc Phan Thi, Ashley Wiersma
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 153
Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine-year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames - before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in a morgue; no one expected her to survive the attack. Napalm meant fire, and fire meant death.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The subtitle should warn what the book is
- De Rex Michael Dillon en 01-27-19
De: Kim Phuc Phan Thi, y otros
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The Last Love Song
- A Biography of Joan Didion
- De: Tracy Daugherty
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 26 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City, when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and cowrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and nonfiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveted for 1591 miles
- De Kaysi12 en 04-11-16
De: Tracy Daugherty
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Never Look an American in the Eye
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución3 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Israel
- 07-19-20
use a Nigerian next time.
the pronunciations of Donne of the terms was appalling. why use a Latin American to narrate a Nigerians story???
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- Benedict C. Nwomeh
- 08-17-22
Masterful
I understand the anxiety about the narration being performed by a non-Nigerian, but honestly, Jay Fernandez did a damn good job; frankly, he did better with Igbo words than many non-Igbo Nigerians, LOL. His narration did very little to detract from the masterful work of Okey, and the rich tapestry it wove of the Nigerian socio-political experience, from the colonial to the present times.
Okey Ndibe is without doubt one of the greatest African writers alive today, arguably the 'inheritor' of Chinua Achebe's legacy.
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