28/01/2014
Foreign Gods Inc by Okey Ndibe - book review
Acclaimed Nigerian writer's second novel shines in what looks likely to be a stellar year for African literature Okey Ndibe won high praise for his first novel, Arrows of Rain. The gods in Okey Ndibe's second novel, Foreign Gods Inc. are playthings for the rich and the famous. They undergo the indignity of being stolen or exiled and then bought and sold like common articles of trade. Even Nietzsche, for whom gods were disposal beings, would have been scandalised by the idea of gods-turned-commodity. He would have felt a bit queasy at the thought of high-end god shops in bustling American cities where Hollywood stars and titans of the corporate world paid $400,000 for a deity without...
