Education
Dibia studied at the University of Ibadan, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Modern European Languages (German).
Dibia studied at the University of Ibadan, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Modern European Languages (German).
He is the author of three well received novels: Walking with Shadows (BlackSands Books, 2005), Unbridled (2007), and Blackbird (2011). His novels have been described as daring and controversial by readers and critics in and out of Africa. Walking with Shadows is said to be the first Nigerian novel that has a gay man as its central character and that treats his experience with great insight, inviting a positive response to his situation.
Unbridled, too, stirred some controversy on its publication.
lieutenant is a story that tackles the emancipation of its female protagonist, who had suffered from incest and various abuse from mentor Dibia’s short stories have appeared on various online literary sites, including AfricanWriter.com and Halftribe.com.
One of his short stories is included in the anthology One World: A global anthology of short stories, alongside stories by such critically acclaimed writers as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jhumpa Lahiri.