Ike Anya
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Ike Anya

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Ike Anya is a consultant in public health medicine working in Nigeria & the UK. Honorary lecturer in public health at Imperial College & teaches at Bristol University & the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. A 2007 TED Global Fellow, with Chikwe Ihekweazu, he co-founded Nigeria Health Watch, EpiAfric & TEDxEuston, the largest Africa focused TEDx event. Cofounder of the Abuja Literary Society & on the advisory council of the AKO Caine Prize, he has written for The Guardian, HuffPost, Granta, Catapult & Eclectica. His essay A Banner Without Stain was published in the anthology Of This Our Country. Co-editor of The Weaverbird Collection of New Nigerian Writing, he has an MA in Non-Fiction from UEA. As a child he lived next door to Chinua Achebe & later Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Small By Small: Becoming A Doctor in 1990s Nigeria praised in The Lancet as offering “a fresh perspective on the beauty & importance of the small moments that collectively define our lives.” & by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “ a small miracle of a book which entertains with delicious storytelling”
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