Tag: Achebe’s death
Chinua Achebe: A Writer And A Half And More
By Akin Adesokan He sits there in the front row, looking baffled by the effusion of encomiums falling all around…
Achebe And I
By Nduka Otiono No one who met the venerable Chinua Achebe–in flesh and blood or in his writings–would ever forget…
Achebe’s Apocalyptic Valediction
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Chinua Achebe appeared on the world stage in grand style by way of the epochal novel,…
Achebe Is Africa’s Shakespeare
By Festus Ayayi I knew Chinua Achebe in the early 80s when he was President of Association of Nigerian Authors…
The Passing Of A Literary Troubadour
By Wale Okediran Like many Nigerian students, who offered Literature in secondary school, I first met Achebe on the pages…
Nobel laureates Soyinka, Gordimer mourn Achebe
Africa’s first Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka and a renowned poet, John Pepper Clark, said Friday they have lost “a…