People Don’t Get Depressed in Nigeria | Ike Anya | Granta

People Don’t Get Depressed in Nigeria

Ike Anya

‘He has come to us against the wishes of his family and the village and I feel that I owe him something.’

Ike Anya

Ike Anya is a consultant in public health medicine working in Nigeria and the UK, most recently supporting the NHS response to COVID in Scotland. His writing has been published in the Guardian, Huffington Post, Granta, Catapult Eclectica, and in the anthology of essays by Nigerian writers on Nigeria: Of This Our Country. He co-edited the Weaverbird Collection, an anthology of new Nigerian writing. His memoir, Small by Small, is published by Sandstone Press.

More about the author →