#RIPChinuaAchebe: Renowned writer, Chinua Achebe’s body arrive Abuja (PHOTOS)

by Akan Ido The body of the renowned writer, Chinua Achebe who died on March 21 has arrived the country for burial. His body arrived Tuesday morning and was received by government officials and associates. Among those who were present at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja to receive his coffin are the Secretary to the... Read More

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May 20, 2013

This is either ‘beef’ or something fishy – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze Some of us refuse to admit it, but we all need each other, and that is what makes Thursday’s protest by as many as 400 Catholic priests in Imo state even more ridiculous. According to the last reliable data we have, which comes from 2007, Nigeria produces 600,000 metric tonnes of fish per annum.... Read More

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May 18, 2013

3 days to burial: Achebe’s family accuses his wife, children of “selling” his corpse to government [DETAILS]

by Hauwa Gambo It’s not the kind of news you want to hear about a man whose global exploits as a Nigerian are matched only perhaps by music legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, but there are reports that, three days to the five-fay burial writes of author and teacher, Chinua Achebe, his family is locked in... Read More

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May 16, 2013

If you say GEJ has no original thinking, where is your own? – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze While simultaneously failing to give us an alternative solution to the #BokoHaram menace, Uncle Lai said that the Prez’s decision lacked “original thinking”. Late Prof. Achebe was a candid man. Candid enough to reject at least two Nigerian national honours in his life because, well, because the system here’s quite broke and... Read More

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May 6, 2013

You have to see this! Linda Ikeji is all kinds of HOT in Mania’s first-ever twin cover (LOOK)

by Hauwa Gambo As she would say on her blog, “Linda, is that you?!” There are no words for how totally, exceedingly, abundantly H to the O to the T Ms Linda Ikeji, blogger and media darling looks in the new Cover of StyleMania magazine – and not least because she is wrapped up in... Read More

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May 2, 2013

Opinion: Chinua Achebe’s ‘Ikemefuna’ and the destiny of the Nigerian youth

by Collins Uma ‘’When a man says yes his chi says yes also’’. I am sitting in my friend’s house at Ogidi, Anambra state and I am looking around wondering how this community was in 1930 when Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was born. Of course, so much has changed. I do not think that the Afor-Igwe market across... Read More

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April 29, 2013

Debo Adejugbe: There will be a country – Achebe’s last prophecy (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Corruption is now a staple in our homes. Tribalism -acknowledged or not- is now a seam in our national fabric. I finally read Chinua Achebe’s “There Was a Country” and I have to admit it really is a work of art. The master storyteller, as we have come to know Achebe, did... Read More

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April 22, 2013

Chinua Achebe’s burial to hold May 23

by Rachel Ogbu Iconic novelist, Chinua Achebe will buried May 23 On Sunday, the Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum and Anambra State Governor Peter Obi made the announcement after a meeting with members of the Achebe family. “I want to announce to you that we also met with Achebe’s family today and we have... Read More

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April 20, 2013

Opinion: Don’t be deceived – Chimamanda Adichie is no Achebe

by Okezie J.S. Nwoka The Alili is a centipede; a centipede has one hundred legs. That is what it claims. The claim won the acceptance of nearly every animal in the verdant forest, giving her the benefit of an unspoken doubt. All of the different animals believed her, save one group. All of the animals... Read More

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April 10, 2013

Tribute: My Initiation into Achebeism

by Samuel O. Adeyemi Unlike everyone else, my initiation into the world of Prof. Chinua Achebe did not start with Things Fall Apart; neither did it start with A Man of the People, it started with reading the summary of Anthills of the Savannah. As an Art student in high school, Anthills of the Savannah was one of the recommended... Read More

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April 9, 2013

Tony Afejuku: Questions I wanted to ask Chinua Achebe

by Prof Tony Afejuku How did he take the pathetic death of Ken Saro-Wiwa? Why did he not, as our leading writer in the United States, lead an international protest and out-cry against the pre-hanging plight of Ken Saro-Wiwa? Professor Chinua Achebe, without any iota of dispute, one of the best and greatest minds... Read More

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April 3, 2013

Tribute: Achebe – The African writer whose pen had a conscience

by Dolapo Aina “Writers don’t give prescriptions; they give headaches”-Anthills of the Savannah- Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) “The moving finger writes, and having written moves on; nor all thy piety and wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line. Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it,” -Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) in the Rubbaiyat... Read More

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April 1, 2013

When I met Achebe, things fell apart – A tribute by James Hagerty

by James Hagerty Mr. Achebe did not share my enthusiasm. He informed me that he was too busy to grant me more than five minutes of his time. Because I did not believe Nigeria could be explained in five minutes, I politely declined. The death last week of the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has summoned... Read More

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April 1, 2013

Debo Adejugbe: Social media votes and the pitfalls of ignorance (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Personally, I would have loved if “Social Media Votes” translated to actual votes… Sadly, it doesn’t! It means that all our hue and cry will amount to nothing if we don’t dig in and get dirty. I read two short but extremely powerful articles on YNaija two weeks ago. One was written... Read More

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March 30, 2013

Dele Momodu: Ave unbreakable, Cum salutant

by Dele Momodu Uncle Wole was a friend of young people whose growth he nurtured. He never discriminated on account of age, gender, religion or social status. He was as cool as the cucumber and he attracted everyone the way the mango attracts flies. Fellow Nigerians, today is not a normal day. It is so... Read More

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March 30, 2013

Opinion: Chinua Achebe, the ventriloquial Iroko

by Robert Obioha One lasting impression I have gathered after years of reading practically most of Chinua Achebe’s literary works and essays is that Africa’s most imagistic and flowery author was indeed a gifted ventriloquist. I have said it before and I still want to say it that most of Achebe’s works are coded like... Read More

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March 29, 2013

The Achebe I knew for 42 years – Prof. Nwala

•What he told me about There Was a Country To some people, Prof. Chinua Achebe wasn’t just the Things Fall Apart personality read in the text or announced in the media like a song. Achebe, the literary giant that passed on last week was a close friend, a contemporary, a friend, guiding light, role model and... Read More

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March 28, 2013

Chris Abani: Chinua Achebe – My complicated literary father

by Chris Abani As a writer I have fought with Achebe. Railed against the anthropological bent of some of his work. Struggled with his complicated positioning of gender. Chaffed against his statements that were often presented as unassailable truths. Igbo culture is comprised of a cosmology, philosophy of self and the world, environmental awareness, symbiotic... Read More

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March 27, 2013

Victor Ehikhamenor writes in the New York Times: Achebe had no country to return to alive

by Victor Ehikhamenor He was a gentle needle that sewed tattered clothes, a minuscule scorpion’s tail that packed venom. He answered every question with the precision of a sniper. He was a man who spoke gently, yet he was a writer “in whose company the prison walls fell down,” as Nelson Mandela said. LAGOS, Nigeria I... Read More

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March 27, 2013

Laz Ude Eze: Lessons from Professor Chinua Achebe

By Laz Ude Eze After reading about the history of his early years noting that he wrote his most popular book Things Fall Apart while in his late 20s, I asked myself, I’m I doing enough for myself and for my country? Are young Nigerians learning from trailblazers like Achebe? “If you say you are... Read More

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March 27, 2013

Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent: I am glad Achebe gave us Chimamanda

by Nwilo Bura–Bari Vincent Achebe played a vital role in placing Nigerian literature in the limelight. He gave attention to African writings. He founded the Association of Nigerian Authors. He would be missed, but his books will console us, I pray. I grew up in a densely populated suburb of Port Harcourt called Ogbunabali. There,... Read More

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March 27, 2013

Ife Adebayo: PDP and the cankerworm called corruption (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo Professor Achebe’s rejection of the recent national honour by the PDP led government of President Goodluck Jonathan is a testament to the fact that he died without his dreams for Nigeria being fulfilled, neither did he see any hopes that these dreams will be fulfilled in the near future… October 1st, 1960,... Read More

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March 27, 2013

Tribute: Farewell Achebe – You were a writer of polished prose, a true gem

by Bayo Oluwasanmi Achebe’s position on those great varieties of problems he wrote about was far reaching and breath taking. Few modern writers dared be as candid in the expression of unwelcome thoughts as Achebe. On March 21, the intellectual world lost one of its most distinguished members when Chinua Achebe died after a brief illness... Read More

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March 26, 2013

What a way to go! The last gift Achebe gave us (#NewLeadership Series with Chude Jideonwo)

by Chude Jideonwo The more I think of him, the more I imagine a man who would never raise his voice (a weakness of mine as evidenced by the exclamations above), but who would always insist on his argument, and improve it; because it was carefully thought out before it was made. A man confident... Read More

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March 26, 2013

Greatness squared: Chinua Achebe with Nelson Mandela in Cape town in 2002 (SNAPSHOT)

by Rachel Ogbu “There was a writer named Chinua Achebe [11/1930 – 03/2013] in whose company the prison walls fell.” – Nelson Mandela Mandela had also said that Achebe was the writer who “brought Africa to the rest of the world”. In this photo, the acclaimed Nigerian author Achebe and former South African President Mandela... Read More

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March 26, 2013

Elnathan John: Mass distraction

by Elnathan John It would be unfair to taint the image of a global literary hero with petty talk of a country that does not have in any of its 774 local governments, one hospital that can properly treat an accident victim without fear of complications. God forbid. Let me start by being honest about... Read More

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March 26, 2013

Tribute: Chinua Achebe – Anunuebe that dwarfs the Iroko

by Okey Ikechukwu The Iroko is really not the ultimate. This tree is a physically manifest great tree, unlike another ‘tree’ that is actually not a tree; in the way that the Ijele ‘masquerade’ is not a masquerade. It is only a weighty matter that compels the elders to start heading towards the Village Square... Read More

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March 25, 2013

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: As sale of power assets enters home stretch

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu It is not just bidders that are losing sleep over where to raise funds for the distribution and generations companies. Even sensible Nigerian banks, which have become risk averse since the banking crisis of 2009, would have to approach the transactions with extreme caution. I heaved a small sigh of relief when... Read More

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March 24, 2013

“If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own” – The New York Times reviews Achebe’s life

by Dwight Garner “If you don’t like someone’s story,” Chinua Achebe told The Paris Review in 1994, “write your own.” In his first novel and masterpiece, “Things Fall Apart” (1958), Mr. Achebe, who died on Thursday at 82, did exactly that. In calm and exacting prose, he examined a tribal society fracturing under the abuses... Read More

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#RIPChinuaAchebe: Renowned writer, Chinua Achebe’s body arrive Abuja (PHOTOS)

This is either ‘beef’ or something fishy – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

3 days to burial: Achebe’s family accuses his wife, children of “selling” his corpse to government [DETAILS]

If you say GEJ has no original thinking, where is your own? – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

Opinion: We need to stop the jack-of-all-trades mentality in Nigerian music & movies

You have to see this! Linda Ikeji is all kinds of HOT in Mania’s first-ever twin cover (LOOK)

Opinion: Chinua Achebe’s ‘Ikemefuna’ and the destiny of the Nigerian youth

Debo Adejugbe: There will be a country – Achebe’s last prophecy (Y! Politico)

Chinua Achebe’s burial to hold May 23

Opinion: Don’t be deceived – Chimamanda Adichie is no Achebe

Tribute: My Initiation into Achebeism

Tony Afejuku: Questions I wanted to ask Chinua Achebe

Tribute: Achebe – The African writer whose pen had a conscience

When I met Achebe, things fell apart – A tribute by James Hagerty

Debo Adejugbe: Social media votes and the pitfalls of ignorance (Y! Politico)

Dele Momodu: Ave unbreakable, Cum salutant

Opinion: Chinua Achebe, the ventriloquial Iroko

The Achebe I knew for 42 years – Prof. Nwala

Chris Abani: Chinua Achebe – My complicated literary father

Victor Ehikhamenor writes in the New York Times: Achebe had no country to return to alive

Laz Ude Eze: Lessons from Professor Chinua Achebe

Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent: I am glad Achebe gave us Chimamanda

Ife Adebayo: PDP and the cankerworm called corruption (Y! Politico)

Tribute: Farewell Achebe – You were a writer of polished prose, a true gem

What a way to go! The last gift Achebe gave us (#NewLeadership Series with Chude Jideonwo)

Greatness squared: Chinua Achebe with Nelson Mandela in Cape town in 2002 (SNAPSHOT)

Elnathan John: Mass distraction

Tribute: Chinua Achebe – Anunuebe that dwarfs the Iroko

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: As sale of power assets enters home stretch

“If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own” – The New York Times reviews Achebe’s life

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