✍🏿 *African Prose* A Brief Analysis of To My Husband from Iowa by Chukwuemeka Ike 🔗 https://www.literaturepadi.com.ng/2025/06/18/a-brief-analysis-of-to-my-husband-from-iowa-by-chukwuemeka-ike/ To My Husband from Iowa by Chukwuemeka Ike is an emotionally resonant narrative told using the voice of Ify, a thirty-two-year-old Nigerian writer and mother of two. The story is structured as a series of voice-recorded cassette messages sent from the United States to her husband and children back home in Nigeria. This innovative format allows the novel to present a deeply personal, reflective, and experiential account of her three-and-a-half-month stay in the U.S., where she participates in an international writing program at the University of Iowa, sponsored by USAID.