- Nigerian Arts, Art thefts, Nigerian Americans, Taxicab drivers
"Foreign Gods, Inc., tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver who sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war deity from his home village and sell it to a New York gallery.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Okey Ndibe
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 341
- Publisher
- Soho Press Inc, Soho Press, Incorporated
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781616954581
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