Captain Elechi Amadi, the great author, school mate to the late Chinua Achebe at Government College, Umuahia, spoke to OKAFOR OFIEBOR in Aluu, near Port Harcourt, Rivers State The late Achebe is often called ‘the father of African literature’. But others will put Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Ayi Kwei Amah and Sembena Ousmane in the same [...]
Odia Ofeimun, poet, literary critic and socio-political commentator, in this interview with ADEMOLA ADEGBAMIGBE, appraises the life and writings of the late Chinua Achebe and the environment that forms the plot and thematic pre-occupation of each of his work How did you receive the news of Achebe’s death? I was in my village in Ekpoma [...]
Mabel Segun, a writer, apart from being born the same year as the late Professor Chinua Achebe, was in the same class with him at the University College, (now University of) Ibadan. In this interview with ADEMOLA ADEGBAMIGBE, Segun, author of Conflict and Other Poems, My Father’s Daughter, Under the Mango Tree, Olu and the [...]
Professor Tanimu Abubakar, teacher of Comparative Literature at the Ahmadu Bello University, tells FEMI ADI where the late Professor Chinua Achebe faltered as a writer How do you rate the late Professor Chinua Achebe as a novelist? First, let me express my condolence to his family, his friends, close associates and all those who are [...]
Nigeria’s leading human rights lawyer and Senior advocate, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has criticised ‘the arrogant’ posturing of aides of President Goodluck Jonathan in justifying the pardon granted former Bayelsa governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha. The senior lawyer, who was interviewed on Channels TV this morning blamed the Nigerian justice system for the pardon granted Alamieyeseigha and [...]
Olubunmi Lawal Oke, the NTA journalist abducted for three days in the western Nigerian state of Ondo, has said her abductors did not even know who she was and she was merely a victim of ‘random kidnapping’. The newscaster spoke with the Punch newspaper in an interview published Tuesday, narrating her almost 72 hour ordeal [...]
Malam Nuhu Ribadu, former chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, tells AYORINDE OLUOKUN and FEMI IPAYE that President Goodluck Jonathan has put the anti-graft war in reverse gear You contested the presidency on the Action Congress of Nigeria platform. What would you say you’ve learnt from the way politics is played in Nigeria? First and [...]
