E.C. Osondu on Alien Stories with Okey Ndibe TAKE 2

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E.C. Osondu on Alien Stories with Okey Ndibe TAKE 2

By Kweli Journal

E.C. Osondu was born in Nigeria. A winner of the Caine Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and BOA Short Fiction Prize he is the author of the story collection--Voice of America and the novel This House is Not For Sale. His latest book is Alien Stories. He is a professor at Providence College.
Okey Ndibe is the author of the novels Never look an American in the eye: A Memoir of flying turtles, colonial ghost, and the making of a NIgerian American, Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain, and co-editor (with Zimbabwean writer Chenjerai Hove) of Writers Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa. Janet Maslin of The New York Times as well as Philadelphia Inquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Mosaic magazine named Foreign Gods, Inc. one of the 10 best books of 2014. The novel was also included in National Public Radio’s list of best books of 2014.

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