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YNaija September 27, 2024

Idris Elba and David Oyelowo to Star in TV Series Adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”

“Things Fall Apart,” a book by a legendary Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe, is set to be adapted into a TV series starring British actor Idris Elba and David Oyelowo. According…

Bernard Dayo May 11, 2021

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 Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, and also Wole Soyinka’s 1975…

Sponsor April 6, 2021

Production on Onyeka Nwelue’s ‘Other Side of History’ moves to Canada for final stretch of filming

The film focuses on the life of Emeka Ojukwu, between 1954-1960, before Nigeria’s Independence, as he spends time, frolicking with different women and throwing parties for his friends, inviting highlife…

Toluwanimi Onakoya December 12, 2020

A Day in the Live Wizkid, Commemorating Chinua Achebe at 90, ELOY Awards…See YNaija’s Top 10 Events for November

Due to the pandemic, entertainers and Nigerians alike had to adjust to an indoor lifestyle and most events moved to the virtual sphere. Gradually, we are beginning to attain a…

Op-Ed Editor November 10, 2020

Afropolis.org gathers 90 Nigerian artistes from 30 cities at home and abroad to commemorate Chinua Achebe @ 90

Chinua Achebe was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi village, Anambra, Nigeria. He meant different things to different artistes in different disciplines. Thus, we have put together an interdisciplinary…

Our Journey Is Joy September 21, 2019

Stewards of ideas whose time has come

by Oluseun Onigbide This powerful paragraph from Autobiography of Martin Luther King, one of my favourite books creates leaps of joy in me: “O God, help me to see myself in…

Editor October 18, 2017

Anakle just retold a deeply important Chinua Achebe story. But do we pay attention?

There was a lot happening in three minutes. I wondered if I was hallucinating this reality – was this Things Fall Apart inside another story, wrapped in another layer, extended, widened, the…

Tolu December 28, 2016

Opinion: Mr. President, Nigerians are no longer at ease

by Ayodele Adio Shortly after reading through Audu Maikori’s narration of the tragedy befalling the beautiful people of southern Kaduna, I was left in a state of limbo about…

Op-ed Editor December 9, 2016

Opinion: The demystification of Professor Soyinka?

by Simon Utsu Soyinka finally unveiled himself as a disrespectful hypocrite when he said a few days back that the green card he claimed he had destroyed (on his own…

Op-ed Editor November 17, 2016

Opinion: If Chinua Achebe were alive today

by James Eze Chinua Achebe would have been 86 yesterday. I remember him in a very special way in the piece below : On the day that would have been…

Op-ed Editor October 15, 2016

Charly Boy: I spoke with my dad about corruption – our legal tender

by Charly Boy A couple of nights ago, I had a seance (talking with the dead) with my two Virgins. I had to talk to the incorruptible, The Lord Denin/Socrates…

Adebayo Emuleomo August 22, 2016

Opinion: My response to Onyeka Nwelue’s criticism of ‘Things Fall Apart’

by Simon Utsu In response to the attack on the standout literature in Achebe's legendary body of work viz Things fall apart, a Facebook friend said the book was part…

Ada Igboanugo June 20, 2015

How Pete Edochie got the “Things Fall Apart” part

Veteran Nollywood icon, Pete Edochie played the lead role of Okonkwo in the NTA adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s best selling novel, Things Fall Apart. He spoke passionately about his life…

Emmanuel Chidiogo April 7, 2015

Opinion: How I lost respect for Kunle Afolayan

by Kelechi Udensi The time for us to be serious is now. We can never succeed in this war against tribal differences like this. I cannot wait to see a…

Emmanuel Chidiogo March 22, 2015

Opinion: Remembering Chinua Achebe, 2 years after

by Chinedu Rylan Be that as it may, it is not the exclusive preserve of the government to promote its own, though the buck stops with them. Well-meaning individuals should…

Emmanuel Chidiogo February 20, 2015

Opinion: There may be another country if things continue like this

by Nnaemeka Oruh ...whoever claims to be fighting for the good of our nation would always stop and ask; "Will the current trend help my nation grow, or will it…

Op-Ed Editor November 25, 2014

@DemolaRewaju: Men fight but only sometimes (Y! Superblogger)

by Demola Rewaju We as menfolk are descended from a long line of ancestors who associated masculinity with violence – Chinua Achebe’s most enduring character, Okonkwo, was a study in…

Kolapo Olapoju October 10, 2014

Album Review: Brymo’s ‘Merchants, Dealers and Slaves’ is the best album you never heard

by Obi Ejiogu A common complaint that often pops up in conversations about contemporary Nigerian music is the sense of a lack of “substance” to much of the Industry’s current…

July 2, 2014

Okey Ndibe: Towards an ethnicity of values

by Okey Ndibe When we see Nigeria’s parade of PhDs act and speak as if each issue is defined by their particular ethnicity or religion, then we must pause and…

June 28, 2014

Why Goodluck Jonathan is the president we deserve (YNaija Long Read)

by Wole Olabanji If you happen to see a woman leaving the Federal Secretariat (Phase I) in Abuja with a bottle of liquid and assume, because of a certain yellowish…

March 22, 2014

Ngozi Achebe: Remembering Achebe’s transition and half a century of Arrow of God

by Ngozi Achebe I said something similar, or at least thought it, a year ago. Nigeria had lost one of its most salient and insistent voices – quiet but with the…

March 10, 2014

Uduak Oduok: No Ma’am, Chimamanda Adichie’s use of “F__k you” on TV is NOT free speech

by Uduak Oduok Let’s separate the two issues. The choice of language is not the issue. The appropriate forum for such a language is the issue. In my world at…

February 5, 2014

Opinion: If Nigeria was China or Saudi Arabia, would the western world interfere?

by Azuka Onwuka Yet, the US sees no evil, hears no evil, keeps its mouth shut and continues to do business with China. Its president continues to exchange presidential visits…

January 14, 2014

SNAPSHOT: Chinua Achebe shows off his works in 1958

by Oge Okonkwo One of the greatest writers to have come out of Africa, late Chinua Achebe just had his book -the classic book 'Things Fall Apart" published in 1958…

Kolapo Olapoju January 12, 2014

That thing around its neck: Is ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ the biggest flop of 2013? (YNaija Long Read)

by Wilfred Okiche One of the surest things on the planet at the moment? Come Thursday next week, when all of the votes are in and the names are pulled…

January 8, 2014

Okey Ikechukwu: Those who call 1914 a mistake are mixing things up badly

by Okey Ikechukwu No one cried foul over Awo’s politics in the South West before he engineered Zik’s ouster using ethnic solidarity. Before then he was aware of himself as…

December 25, 2013

Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Chinua Achebe & other deaths that shook the world in 2013

by Rachel Ogbu We wonder what Christmas in heaven will be like this year. On earth, while we celebrate the birth of Christ, we also mourn the passing away of…

December 19, 2013

Opinion: The hard knocks of death

by Somefun OluwasegunWhen Angel Death brings its hard knocks down on man, it is all a matter of how well you have lived in response to God’s benchmark. For the…

December 18, 2013

Okey Ndibe: Somebody should shoo Obasanjo off the stage

by Okey Ndibe Somebody ought to shoo Mr. Obasanjo off the stage. He must leave us in peace to focus on a true leader – Madiba Nelson Mandela – a…

December 14, 2013

Opinion: Let me die just like Mandela

by Moses Adebayo Alao Can a man imprisoned for 27 years become president and clamour for peace and reconciliation rather than paying back the ‘enemies’? Yes, indeed there can…

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