In bare-it-all interview with SaharaReporters, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka spoke about Chinua Achebe, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and many other issues. Question: Do you recall where or how you first ...
Achebe's books are elegant, musical, and — most significantly — they'll live on as African rebuttals to the colonial narratives of Joseph Conrad and other European writers. Achebe's influence is most ...
Messengers: A two-part special that visits one of the world's greatest authors Chinua Achebe at his upstate New York home in the wake of the 50th year celebration of his bestseller novel 'Things Fall ...
Chinua Achebe's 1958 debut novel Things Fall Apart has sold 10 million copies worldwide and been translated into 50 languages. The book provided a unique picture of late 19th century Igbo culture in ...
Achebe and Father of African Literature: So sad Soyinka raised the issue at the wrong time — Nwankwo
Chimalum Nwankwo, fiery literary critic and award-winning poet, is Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English and World Literatures at Nigerian-Turkish Nile University, Abuja. He was Chair, ...
Also: Why He Wished Achebe Had Not Written His Last Book; What He Told Ojukwu Before The War; Genocide, And Other Issues Also: Why He Wished Achebe Had Not Written His Last Book; What He Told Ojukwu ...
But as I said, I have no other profession or interest in any other profession. So you must assume that I’ll keep working at it to the last day In this rare interview with the late Nigerian author, ...
He also picked holes in Mr. Achebe’s last work, There Was a Country, which turned out the author’s most controversial. In an extensive interview with news website, Saharareporters, Mr. Soyinka said ...
FIRST generation Awoist and elder statesmen, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, yesterday picked holes in Professor Chinua Achebe’s accusation that Chief Obafemi Awolowo was part of General Yakubu Gowon’s cabinet ...
Editor’s Note: Tolu Ogunlesi is a freelance journalist in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2009 he was awarded the Arts and Culture prize in the annual CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards. Chinua Achebe died, ...
Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe died Thursday in Boston. His first novel, Things Fall Apart was published in 1958 and is still the most widely-read piece of African literature. Nigerian writer Chinua ...
Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, a classic of post-colonial African literature, has died at the age of 82. Often referred to as the grandfather of African letters, the Nigerian was the ...
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