Tag: chinua achebe
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 ...
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 ...
Opinion: We need to stop the jack-of-all-trades mentality in Nigerian music & movies
by Segun Adekoye I know you are coming to read this article probably out of vex. In your mind, you ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.” ...
Elnathan John: Mass distraction
by Elnathan John It would be unfair to taint the image of a global literary hero with petty talk of ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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.” ...
Simon Kolawole: There was a legendary Iroko
by Simon Kolawole In his civil war memoir, There Was a Country, which turned out to be his last work, ...
Achebe must be buried at home – Anambra gov’t
by Rachel Ogbu The Anambra State government is pushing for the late novelist, Chinua Achebe to be buried in his ...
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