Ikhide Ikheloa

Ikhide Ikheloais a Nigerian writer, literary and social critic, blogger, essayist and advocate for African literature in the digital age. He is popularly known as “Pa Ikhide.” He was born in Lagos in 1959 and studied Biochemistry at the University of Benin, graduating in 1979. He later obtained an MBA from the University of Mississippi in 1984. Quotes Stories are powerful; they define people and societies in positive and crippling ways. It is the best thing that has happened to literature since the beginning of the earth. Social media has given many of us our voices. I love it. Much of what people call reviews are really my commentaries on our condition as Africans, sometimes using a particular book as a launching pad. One must always take a stand, one must always be subjective. One must strive to be fair. One’s works are scattered all over the place and it is virtually impossible to gather them under one roof if one is prolific or garrulous. The Internet for me has been invaluable in networking, propagating and sharing ideas all over the world. The gatekeepers of traditional publishing are being shoved aside with spectacular force and people are telling their stories. This generation of African writers has masterfully taken advantage of today’s technologies to give voice to our stories and our songs. External links