Ifeanyichukwu Ndubuisi Chikezie Aniebo, commonly known as I. N. C. Aniebo (born 31 March 1939) is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer, who has been called "the master craftsman of the Nigerian short story".

Aniebo trained as an artillery officer; his first stories were written under a pseudonym to avoid censorship. He fought for Biafra

Biafra

Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, was a secessionist state in south-eastern Nigeria that existed from 30 May 1967 to 15 January 1970, taking its name from the Bight of Biafra . The inhabitants were mostly the Igbo people who led the secession due to economic, ethnic, cultural and religious...

 in the Nigerian Civil War

Nigerian Civil War

The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Nigerian-Biafran War, 6 July 1967–15 January 1970, was a political conflict caused by the attempted secession of the southeastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra...

, 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

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

, before returning to Nigeria in 1979 to teach Creative Writing and Literature at the English Department of the University of Port Harcourt

University of Port Harcourt

The University of Port Harcourt is a university in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt. It was established in 1975 as University College, Port Harcourt, and was given university status in 1977.-Faculties:...

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Works

Novels

• The Anonymity of Sacrifice. African Writers Series
  African Writers Series
  African Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...
  
   148. London, Heinemann Educational, 1974.
• The Journey Within. African Writers Series
  African Writers Series
  African Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...
  
  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.

External links

• Arthur Ravenscroft, I(feanyichukwu) N(dubuisi) C(hikezie) Aniebo Biography
• Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Interview with I.N.C. Aniebo, ChickenBones: A Journal. (Interview conducted July 1995, posted online 3 September 2006)