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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
In fifty years of its existence, Chinua Achebe's classic novel, Things Fall Apart has lived up to its reputation as perhaps the best work of fiction to have come out of Africa. Celebrated for its story line, its simplicity of language and its unaffected African setting, Things Fall Apart has proved, over the past half a century, to be a highly readable and influential novel.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
DURING the burial of a village elder as told by Chinua Achebe in his best seller, Things Fall Apart, orator after orator came out and shouted their eulogies. Certainly, such a scenario would befit the late Dr. Israel Kibirige Ssebunya.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
In Professor Chinua Achebe's novel "Arrow of God', the chief priest, Ezeulu saw imminent danger to the community but he selfishly thought his family would be spared. But instead of the arrow from the gods striking the community, it ended up striking Ezeulu's family alone. Today, former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki falls into Ezeulu's category. Mbeki in the power game he initiated to politically...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Poverty and humanity across the continent CHINUA ACHEBE, the grandaddy of African writing, was so impressed by Richard Dowden’s new book on Africa that when the author asked him for a few kind words to put on the jacket, Mr Achebe wrote him a two-page foreword. “One could not ask for a more qualified author to explore Africa’s complexity,” he concluded. Drawing on 30 years of travels, first as a teacher...
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Lagos, Nigeria - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe will next month deliver lectures to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Nigeria's Guardian newspaper Limited, publishers of the leading Guardian titles, the paper reported Tuesday.
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Afrigator (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
This rich and diverse issue includes a toast to the late poet/playwright Bate Besong by Africa's leading poet, Niyi Osundare; Chinua Achebe's appeal to Anglophone Cameroon writers to find - and tell - the story of their marginal and marginalized condition; playwright Bole Butake's dilemma of either dealing with the hardships Cameroon or going into exile;storyteller Makuchi's National public radio interview...
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Chinua Achebe will publish a collection of 17 autobiographical essays to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Things Fall Apart. (Via.)
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FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
George Udenkwo lists his influences as Philip K Dick, Jeff Noon, Chinua Achebe and Michael Ondaatje amongst various others. He lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and has just completed the second book in the Golgotha Falls series. Golgotha Falls is a stunning debut, Udenkwo’s intelligence and passion come through clearly in his work [...]
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The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
When the famous Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said that the problem of the African continent is poor leadership, not a few people thought he was...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
When the famous Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said that the problem of the African continent is poor leadership, not a few people thought he was wrong.
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PostNews Online (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
By Ernest Sumelong One year after SUMMIT Magazine was launched, the Magazine had it all in gold on its fifth edition - a Chinua Achebe focused edition- that hit the stands on June 30.
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Bruno and the Professor (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Troops needed in Afghanistan end up in Iraq, Obama punts on the FISA bill, and finally: the Supremes rule on the 2nd amendment. Links Mentioned: The hunt for Bin Laden … the new Army Iraq report … the FISA bill … the Prof references Chinua Achebe and The Lives of Others … the Genarlow [...]
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Finally Running (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
No, I'm not referring to the title of the novel by Chinua Achebe. I'm referring to my body. It's amazing, isn't it? A few months off from consistent running and exercising, and woooooosh. All that hard work for nothing. After...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
When Chinua Achebe, one of the foremost scholars of the African continent and the father of the African novel, declared in his collection of critical essays "Morning yet on Creation Day", that the novelist is a teacher, he was not merely paying tribute to the novelist, but he was celebrating the profession of teachers. Africa has produced some of the greatest intellectuals of the world who were former...
