Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
Ikhide R. Ikheloa has written some of the most popular articles on this website and the Internet today under his pseudonym "Nnamdi." Ikheloa who calls his writings "moonlighting" also writes poetry.
Articles by this Author
In the name of our sisters: Everything Good Will Come
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 04/14/2008
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
Sister Atta, you speak to me in your book. You speak to me from deep in the bowels of my ancestors’ coven. You speak to me howling, bawling, and soaking me in the song of our mothers’ grief...
Burma Boys and Strange Wars
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 04/12/2008
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
Have you ever read a book that you could never put down because you feel this weird obligation to finish it? To relive that experience, buy Biyi Bandele’s book Burma Boy...
Every Day Is For The Thief
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 04/12/2008
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
There are many things to like about this little book that purrs gently, ever so gently. The book exudes the quiet confidence of a writer properly centered in the beauty and challenges of his being...
American Diary: My Meeting With President Umaru Musa Yar’adua
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 12/22/2007
- Life Abroad
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Ikhide, this is important, please act like a big man when you meet the President, behave yourself, don’t say stupid things like “Why are you sitting on a stolen mandate, Mr. President?” you know how you get when your tongue escapes your mouth!
The Balance of Our Stories
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 12/9/2007
- Position Papers
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It is a great time to be a connoisseur of Nigerian literature. There are all these Nigerian writers doing some really exciting work and there are not enough hours in the day to consume all their wares...
Restless Diary: Yellow-Yellow Rivers of Dreams
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 08/20/2007
- Interviews & Profiles
- Unrated
In Yellow-Yellow, we see a Nigeria rotting in place as its people desperate for affirmation and survival engage in an elaborate okoso system of getting whatever they need in return for whatever they can give...
In the Shadows of Unbridled Change
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 08/6/2007
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
If Dibia’s book does not spark debate in Africa it is probably because that continent has a crushing burden of challenges that make the issue of homosexuality look trivial...
Obi Nwakanma's "The Horsemen and other poems" reviewed
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 06/4/2007
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
In The Horsemen and other poems, Nwakanma gallops through many seasons of war, ploughs through many cemeteries of fallen dreams, scales okra covered walls and chases dreams that never left our huts in the first place. And the reader comes upon this land of alien deities, and lands exhausted on the unwelcome mats of these strange people that worship feuding gods...
The Virgins Of Flaming Change
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 05/31/2007
- Arts & Reviews
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I must say, after reading The Virgin of Flames that I heartily recommend it to all lovers of good literature. This book is a delightful riot of sizzling prose, robust poetry and keep-me-up-at-night issues...
This Penkelemesi: We Have No Dog in This Fight
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 05/28/2007
- Nigeria Matters
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Is it really the case that the Nigerian situation is a result of a dearth of solutions? Anyone who believes that is in deep denial. There is an over-abundance of solutions to the Nigerian problem...
