I. N. C. Aniebo

Ifeanyichukwu Ndubuisi Chikezie Aniebo, Listen^ⓘ commonly known as I. N. C. Aniebo (born 31 January 1939), is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer,^[1] who has been called "the master craftsman of the Nigerian short story".^[2]

Aniebo trained as an artillery officer; his first stories were written under a pseudonym to avoid censorship. He fought for Biafra in the Nigerian Civil War, and The Anonymity of Sacrifice (1974) gives a sense of the horrors and personal conflicts of that war. Aniebo subsequently studied at the University of California, Los Angeles,^[1] before returning to Nigeria in 1979 to teach Creative Writing and Literature at the English Department of the University of Port Harcourt.^[3]

Works

Novels

• The Anonymity of Sacrifice. African Writers Series 148. London: Heinemann Educational, 1974.
• The Journey Within. African Writers Series 206. London: Heinemann, 1978.
• Rearguard Actions. Ibadan, Nigeria: Heinemann Educational Books, 1998.

Short story collections

• Of Wives, Talismans and the Dead. London: Heinemann, 1983.
• Man of the Market: Short Stories. Port Harcourt: Pam Unique, 1994.

Individual short stories

• "The Jealous Goddess," in Spear (Lagos), October 1963.
• "My Mother," in Sunday Times (Lagos), 22 December 1963.
• "The Ring," in Nigeria Magazine (Lagos), December 1964.
• "The Peacemakers," in Nigeria Magazine (Lagos), December 1965.
• "Shadows," in Black Orpheus 20 (Lagos), 1966.
• "Mirage," in Nigeria Magazine (Lagos), March 1966.
• "The Outing," in Happy Home and Family Life (Lagos), May 1972.
• "Happy Survival, Brother," in Ufahamu (Los Angeles), vol. 7, no. 3, 1977.