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Ikhide R. Ikheloa

Ikhide R. Ikheloa is a social critic whose work explores the intersection of literature and politics. He received the 2022 James Currey Society Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Criticism.

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September 12, 2022

My Seven Black Fathers by Will Jawando Review—Family, Race, & a Nigerian Son’s Quest

“Without these men standing in for his father, he would have continued feeling ‘like I missed something only he could give me.’ This is a rich tapestry of the power of relationships in molding a precocious, restless kid who is black.”
Ikhide R. Ikheloa

September 12, 2022

My Seven Black Fathers by Will Jawando Review—Family, Race, & a Nigerian Son’s Quest

“Without these men standing in for his father, he would have continued feeling ‘like I missed something only he could give me.’ This is a rich tapestry of the power of relationships in molding a precocious, restless kid who is black.”
Ikhide R. Ikheloa

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