Tag: achebe
These books by Chinua Achebe are being adapted for television
Last year saw Netflix inking a deal with Mo Abudu to adapt the literary works of Lola Shonenyin’s The Secret ...
Life, integrity and culture: 10 Chinua Achebe quotes to remember
Chinua Achebe would have turned 85 years old today, November 16. Chinua Achebe, who died in 2013, wrote classic books like ...
Opinion: Achebe was a seer, even if they sneered at him
by Ayokunle Odekunle Through the source and course of history, we have been regaled with the tales and legends of ...
INTERVIEW: Achebe was no father of African literature – Wole Soyinka has all guns blazing (and we mean, blazing!)
by Hauwa Gambo SaharaReporters sat Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka down for an interview – and results is, like some will ...
The un-tribute: Achebe was an Igbophile, not the father of African literature
by Ibrahim Bello-Kano Indeed, we cannot help wondering if the recent insensate massacre of Chinua’s people in Kano, only ...
Thisday Report: Gov Peter Obi confirms Achebe’s death
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has confirmed the passing away of one of the nation’s foremost literary icons, Professor ...
I had never written a book review, until I read ‘There Was A Country’
by C. Nwaonu Maybe we can grudgingly learn to love the other members of the harem or file for ...
My generation has moved beyond civil war – Fashola
resolved to ensure that the union of various ethnic groups in the country live in harmony. The governor said ...
Tunde Fagbenle: Achebe may be correct, but he defied logic
by Tunde Fagbenle It is doubtful if the great novelist of our time, Prof. Chinua Achebe, expected his latest book, ...
Akintunde Oyebode: This might never be a country (YNaija Frontpage)
This is the power of folklore, especially on young and developing minds; and the difference between the truth and a ...
TICKER: Achebe hates Awo … and the Yoruba race – Adebanjo
A leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has faulted extracts from Prof. Chinua Achebe’s latest memoirs ...
TICKER: Achebe is angry because a Yoruba man won the Nobel – Ekiti commissioner
Poet, literary and social critic Mr Odia Ofeimun has said Biafran war leaders should be sent to the Nuremberg Trial ...
“The war is still very personal”: Uzodinma Iweala (also) reviews Achebe’s book
by Uzodinma Iweala I met Chinua Achebe for the first time when I was in high school, but I knew ...
Chimamanda reviews Achebe’s new book: “The reader is left with a nagging dissatisfaction”
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Nigeria, at independence from British rule in 1960, was called the Giant of Africa. With ...
Achebe hits hard: “The genocidal Biafran war still haunts Nigeria”
by Chinua Achebe The persecution of the Igbos didn’t end with the Biafran conflict. Until the nation faces up to ...
Tolu Ogunlesi: “Simply and squarely a failure of …” (YNaija FrontPage)
It has been three decades since that Chinua Achebe’s ‘The Trouble with Nigeria’ appeared. That is the book in which ...
Phil Smart: Your right to write (30 days, 30 voices)
While none can deny reading and its king place in learning, no reading is possible except from that which has ...
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YMonitor
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- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
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- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
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