Ikenna Okeh
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Ikenna Okeh
@ikennaokeh.bsky.social
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Novelist | Producer, 'Barbershop: The Audioplay Series | Pidgin English essays |
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These essays in Pidgin English, as sensitive and moving as they are, touch on issues around the migration wave, which has become one of the integral aspects of modern Nigerian cultural identity.

#essays #pidginenglish #pidginessay #africanessays #bookstagram #africannonfiction
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time” - Mary Oliver
While the team was working on Episode 2 of Barbershop, the sound engineer couldn't help but burst into laughter repeatedly. I just listened to the final cut, and I haven’t laughed this hard in ages.

I’m thrilled for July when we can share this hilarious #audioplay series with all of you!
Sometimes we read and we forget. 'Forget' isn't the exact word, because something happens to us, or rather we encounter something along the way and then, it pops up — that thing we once read about and which we thought we'd forgotten.
Our audioplay, Barbershop, will be available for streaming on AkooBooks Audio. I'm excited to break this good news to you. Can't wait for July.
So, for the audioplay, 'Barbershop', we created an original soundtrack. My folks at UbuntuFM Africa gave it a thumps up, and I know what that means. 😊

'Barbershop' is set in contemporary Nigeria, and it comes to you in July.

#audioplay #audiodrama #barbershop
Zimbabweans, in my opinion, are the most educated Africans.
I think polarity is the order of the universe, and one extremity necessitates the existence of an equal and opposite form. What I'm trying to say is that wherever there's good, there's an equal measure of bad lurking around.
June feels like a new beginning. It feels like an old cycle just ended, and a new one begins. This, I feel within me, should be the beginning of a year.
"This study specifically examines social support as a norm in the Igbo society of West Africa using Ikenna Okeh's 'Deportee'. With the use of Freud's psychoanalytic theory, this study explores the African standard of social support as portrayed in the novel."
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Social Support as an African Norm: A Study of Ikenna Okeh's Deportee | Emelone | Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Journal of Folklore and Cultural Studies
Social Support as an African Norm: A Study of Ikenna Okeh's Deportee
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In 2023, I released a one-act play, 'Barbershop'. Today, I've collaborated with Ijele Renaissance Theatre @Ijeletheatre to adapt 'Barbershop' into an audioplay series for your listening pleasure.

Coming to you this July.

For inquiries, please find details on the flyer.
#radioplay #audiodrama
As a writer, it's expected that you write every day, or at least read; one is as much a part of the process as the other.
Turkiye, like I've always said and written about in fiction, is the world's best-kept secret. 🇹🇷

#Turkiye #Antalya
Food has served to foster peace and wars. Ask the Lilliputans. They waged a war over some disagreement on what end of an egg to crack.

This is me in Paris last year with my friend and my French publishers sampling French cuisine and discussing the sentiments surrounding French foods and drinks.
Modern Africans look down on their ancient institutions. They neither build modern institutions nor build upon the ancient blueprints. Instead, they expend so much energy fighting for inclusion into institutions of others. This is an interesting thing to observe.
There exists an appreciable amount of great fictional works centered around the theme of migration. I'm one of the few Africans who've written about 'reverse immigration'. It's up to you to judge whether it counts as a great work or not. I actually invite you to. Get a copy today.
Thank you, Okpara. I hope you enjoy 'Rogues of the East'.
Anchor your art in the spiritual.
'Whatever Happens in Antalya' is me paying homage to one of the best cities I've ever lived in, a city that offered me everything.

You can get your copy on Amazon ... but remember, whatever happens in Antalya stays in Antalya.

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'Whatever Happens in Antalya' is humourous, adventurous, erotic - yet stripped of vulgarity. This style was inspired by a passage in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eyes'. She delivered on eroticism without leaning on vulgarity.
But I was a prat,
Given to incessant prattle
And every mean sup,
Tasted as much supple,
To a prat,
Given to incessant prattle.

- Ikenna Okeh
(c) 2015.

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Every year, a new child would add,
To the nest,
To partake of the communal nestle
But to Mother, it would her happiness addle;
For much like in a cave of bats,
Air, food and space were a daily battle
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A Look Into Yesterday
When I was but a lad
I was as thin as a ladle
They say I was some prat,
Given to incessant prattle
But those were times so generously lit,
With memories by no means little;
We lived in a shack,
A testimony of poverty’s binding shackle
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#poem #poetry
Apparently, I update my CV every six months.
"Ikenna Okeh re-introduces us to the chaotic energy of Lagos in his novel Yahoo! Yahoo!, taking a hard and exciting look at the subculture of Internet fraud and digital and romance scams that thrive in the shadowy world beneath the city’s surface ..."

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