Ikhide ikheloa biography

Nigerian writer and critic (born 1959)

Ikhide Roland Ikheloa is a Nigerian writer and literary critic who has worked in the American civil service since 1984.

He is widely read and known in Anglophone Africa for his strong opinions on literature and politics which has won him many admirers and also made him very controversial. While he is seen as a writer and critic by his admirers, this position has often been debated by his critics.

Ikhide ikheloa biography

But Ikheloa simply refers to himself as a reader who writes and is highly opinionated.

Early life and education

Ikhide Ikheloa was born in Ikeja Barracks, Lagos on February 14, 1959. His father was an itinerant policeman and his mother was a typist at the Lagos immigration office.

As a result of his father's occupation, he was often transferred to different places across Southern Nigeria. Ikheloa earned a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Benin in 1979.

He moved to the United States in 1982 to pursue a Masters in Bu