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Never Look an American in the Eye

A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian America

ISBN-13: 9781616958633

Author(s): Okey Ndibe

Subjects: BGLA, DNBL1

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Soho Press

Publication Date: 14-09-2017

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£13.99
Never Look an American in the Eye

About the book

This memoir relates Okey Ndibe's move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential - but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency - African Commentary magazine. Recounting stories of Ndibe's relationships with Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and other literary figures; examining differences between Nigerian and American etiquette and politics; exposing racial profiling; considering American stereotypes about Africa (and vice-versa); and juxtaposing African folk tales with Wall Street trickery.