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Never look an American in the eye : a memoir : flying turtles, colonial ghosts, and the making of a Nigerian American / Okey Ndibe.
Publisher: New York, NY : Soho, [2016]Description: 210 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781616957605
- 1616957603
- Ndibe, Okey, 1960-
- Authors, Nigerian -- 21st century -- Biography
- Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography
- Nigerian Americans -- Biography
- Journalists -- United States -- Biography
- College teachers -- United States -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- Nigeria -- Civilization -- 21st century -- Anecdotes
- United States -- Civilization -- 21st century -- Anecdotes
- PR 9387.9 .N358 Z46 2016
- BIO026000 | BIO007000
Contents:
English Dreams, Communist Fantasies, and American Wrestling -- Never Look an American in the Eye -- My Commission and a Chilly American Reception -- Sleepless in New York -- Nigerian, Going Dutch -- Fitting the Description -- Are You Okay? -- A Norwegian "Okay" Interlude-- On a Croc's Back, America-Bound -- Will Edit for Food -- Lying to Be a Writer -- Writing, Reading, Food, Some Ass Kicking -- A Brand-New American -- An African Folktale, a Wall Street Lesson -- A Dying Father, Dreams of Burma and England -- Wole Soyinka Saves My Christmas -- Crashing a Party, Changing Hearts.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | PR 9387.9 .N358 Z46 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | c20029245 |
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| PR 9387.9 .E33 G6 1980 Going to storm / | PR 9387.9 .N358 A89 2015 Arrows of rain / | PR 9387.9 .N358 F67 2014 Foreign Gods, Inc. / | PR 9387.9 .N358 Z46 2016 Never look an American in the eye : a memoir : flying turtles, colonial ghosts, and the making of a Nigerian American / | PR 9387.9 .O378 Z57 2000 Critical essays on Christopher Okigbo / | PR 9387.9 .O378 Z6 1984 Critical perspectives on Christopher Okigbo / | PR 9387.9 S6 2003 You must set forth at dawn : a memoir / |
English Dreams, Communist Fantasies, and American Wrestling -- Never Look an American in the Eye -- My Commission and a Chilly American Reception -- Sleepless in New York -- Nigerian, Going Dutch -- Fitting the Description -- Are You Okay? -- A Norwegian "Okay" Interlude-- On a Croc's Back, America-Bound -- Will Edit for Food -- Lying to Be a Writer -- Writing, Reading, Food, Some Ass Kicking -- A Brand-New American -- An African Folktale, a Wall Street Lesson -- A Dying Father, Dreams of Burma and England -- Wole Soyinka Saves My Christmas -- Crashing a Party, Changing Hearts.
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