Tag: Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart @67: Chioke, Adichie makes case for Igbo unity
According to the Afrinvest boss, Achebe once said, ‘Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order…
Omoni Oboli speaks on reactions to Idris Elba playing lead role in ‘Things Fall Apart’
Omoni Oboli has expressed her views on Idris Elba’s casting as the lead actor in the upcoming film adaptation of…
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart a demonstration of Africans’ heroism – Don
Things Fall Apart is a book that demonstrates the heroism, the heroism of the Africans; Chinua Achebe demonstrates that despite…
Arrow of God, others chosen for The Big Jubilee Read
The Big Jubilee Read spearheaded by BBC Arts and The Reading Agency celebrates great reads from across the Commonwealth, to…
Chinua Achebe’s African trilogy for television
By Nehru Odeh Things Fall Apart, classic Chinua Achebe published in 1958 is to be adapted for television. But Achebe’s…
Google honours Chinua Achebe
Technology giant, Google has honoured Nigerian literary icon, Chinua Achebe on its doodle, adding up to the long list of…
Remembering Kofi Awoonor: Humanity And Against
By Wole Soyinka I am certain there are others who, like me, received invitations to the recent edition of the…
The Achebe I knew
By Chido Onumah “Indiscipline pervades our life so completely that one may be justified in calling it the condition par…
Achebe Goes Home In Blaze of Glory
JETHRO IBILEKE/Ogidi Prof. Chinua Achebe, the late Nigerian literary icon was buried this afternoon at his country home in Ogidi,…
Jonathan leads dignitaries to Achebe’s burial today
.Archbishop of canterbury, President Jonathan and many dignitaries expected by Joel Olatunde Agoi Revered Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, author of…
Achebe’s people ready for his burial
JETHRO IBILEKE/Ogidi The people of Ogidi, home town of world renowned Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe have expressed their readiness to…
Achebe’s body arrives home state ahead of burial
The body of revered Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe arrived Wednesday in his home state in Nigeria, where hundreds of admirers…
UNN Honours Achebe With Special Senate Session
The University of Nigeria, Nsuka, UNN, southeast Nigeria, Tuesday honoured the late literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe when it held…
Soyinka slams those who diminish Chinua Achebe
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, in an interview with Sahara Reporters, speaks on his relationship with compatriot, Chinua Achebe and…
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Timeless Piece
By Grace Igbokwe Chinua Achebe was well known throughout the thirty-six states of the federation and even beyond. His fame…
I Will Pay My Debt To Achebe
By Isaac Umunna I have a confession to make: I am owing Chinua Achebe. That I did not pay this…
Nigeria From 1966-1970: The American Files Are Not From Heaven
By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema My unquenchable interest in how and why Nigeria stopped turning between 1966 and 1970 was ignited…
Achebe: Nigeria’s South East leaders plan befitting burial
Governors of the South East on Sunday in Enugu agreed to give the renowned author, Prof. Chinua Achebe, a befitting…
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…
ACN: Chinua Achebe a global icon for all time
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has paid a glowing tribute to renowned Nigerian writer and nationalist Chinua Achebe, who…
Achebe: UNN flies Flags at half staff as Tinubu, others pay tribute
The authorities of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka have directed all flags to be flown at half staff as precursor…
Profile: The essential Chinua Achebe, father of African literature
by M.J. Smith, Ben Simon Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely regarded as the father of modern African literature, has died…
Zuma: Africa owes Achebe a debt of gratitude
The South African President, Mr Jacob Zuma, said Africa owes a debt of gratitude to Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in…
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…
Torrents of tributes pour for Chinua Achebe
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday that late Prof. Chinua Achebe will be greatly missed for his immense patriotism and…
Prof. Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s Novelist Dies
Nigeria’s literary icon, Professor Albert Chinualumogu Achebe is dead. He died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United…
Achebe, Kanu, Chukwumerije honored
The Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) in Enugu on Sunday conferred an award titled “The Great Igbo Icon’’ on Prof. Chinua…