By Akin Adesokan He sits there in the front row, looking baffled by the effusion of encomiums falling all around him like snow, a little overshadowed...
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...
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,...
Kole Omotoso Avuncular is the easiest word that comes to mind for me in describing Chinua Achebe, who has joined his ancestors. Ours was not an...
Chinua Achebe dies at 82, leaving behind a body of works that assures his place in world literature The news of the death of Professor Chinua...
The death last week of the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has summoned forth a torrent of tributes, eulogies and interpretations of his work. All I can...
The news of the death of the foremost African folklorist, Prof. Chinua Achebe as shattering as it marks the nunc dimitis of pioneer African writing. This...
Arese and I, like all Nigerians have been deeply saddened by the passing here in my home town of Boston of one of the world’s greatest...
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a creative writer and distinguished professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine, pays tribute to the late Prof....
… Say, ‘Name National Library after literary giant’ The House of Representatives on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to immortalize the late Prof. Chinua Achebe who...
Would you tell us something about the Achebe family and growing up in an Igbo village, your early education, and whether there was anything there that...
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