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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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February 24, 2012

Action! : The Making of Nigeria’s Film Industry – Andrew Rice for The New York Times

Summary of the News from The New York Times Twenty years after bursting from the grungy street markets of Lagos, the $500 million Nigerian movie business churns out more than a thousand titles a year on average, and trails only Hollywood and Bollywood in terms of revenues. The films are hastily shot and then burned... Read More

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