Ndibe, Okey

Okey Ndibe, author of the novel "Arrows of Rain", teaches African literature and African diaspora literature at Brown University. He earned an MFA and PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has taught at Connecticut College, Bard College at Simon s Rock, Trinity College (Connecticut), and the University of Lagos (as a Fulbright scholar). He also served on the editorial board of the "Hartford Courant", where his essays won national and state awards. He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with his wife, Sheri, and their three children.