This week's Times Literary Supplement was filled with articles which, though superficially about other themes, were really about one single issue- that of the relationship between authors and their works. Karl Orend for example argued that Louis Ferdinand Celine was an important figure in French literary history despite his collaboration with the Nazis and his anti-semitic conspiracy theories. Adam...
A modern view on the subject of racism in the novels and stories of Joseph Conrad is given in the writing of Chinua Achebe and Edward Said. The key texts here are Achebe's 1975 lecture An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness and Said's Orientalism . Yes, Conrad's work, not just Heart of Darkness , shows signs of both racism and sexism. But does it matter? It seems altogether...
The Juan MacLean , the Field , and Nordic Soul perform at Nectar tonight; it is the place to be. The Juan MacLean, the Field, Nordic Soul (Nectar) Here we have two totally distinct electronic musicians both working at the top of their game. The Juan MacLean's latest, The Future Will Come (DFA), expertly mixes Human League—style synth-pop (with female vocal counterpoints supplied by longtime...
[ Akin Euba (b. 1935) is a Nigerian composer and musicologist whose theories include “African Pianism”. He is profiled at AfriClassical.com ] The Guardian Lagos, Nigeria Ogunboye Paul, Classical Music Composer, In African Idiom By Osa Amadi "AT his age, he should have been flapping his hands in the air, hopping about the stage like a monkey, and barking out meaningless words for music...
It has been said over and over again by intellectual giants like Professors Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka that the Nigerian ruling establishment is anti-intellectual. And there is every reason to believe these literary giants, given our experiences both recent and old.
...has won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. The Globe & Mail reports : Ms. Munro, who lives in Clinton, Ont., and Comox, B.C., was chosen from a field of 14 writers, including Peter Carey, E.L. Doctorow, Mario Vargas Llosa, V.S. Naipaul and Joyce Carol Oates. The £60,000 (just over $100,000) prize, awarded biannually, is a spin-off of the Man Booker Prize, the well-known annual...
Alice Munro is today, 27 May 2009, announced as the winner of the third Man Booker International Prize. The Man Booker International Prize, worth £60,000 to the winner, is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage. It was first awarded to Ismail Kadaré in 2005 and then to Chinua Achebe in 2007....
The third ever Man Booker International Prize was announced late yesterday, and it has gone to Canada’s own Alice Munro. She is the first Canadian to win the biannual £60,000 prize (the two previous winners being Ismail Kadaré in 2005 and Chinua Achebe in 2007), which is awarded based on an entire body of work. From [...]
Israeli Police Forcefully Close an International Literature ...Alternative Information Center (AIC) - Jerusaelm, IsraelAmong the patrons who have supported the starting of the festival last year were acclaimed South African writer Chinua Achebe, (the late) Palestinian poet...Really'Whatever happened to researching what we don't know?There are more than 50 countries in Africa, why 'South African'?
Copyright The Nation - This article appeared in the May 18, 2009 edition. By Howard W. French May 4, 2009 When it was published fifty years ago, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart caused a stir for its revelation of something hitherto strange and unfamiliar in the world of literature: genuine African voices. Achebe was not the first African novelist, as he has sometimes wrongly been called, but his...
Over at The Nation, Howard W. French takes a walk with Chinua Achebe's classic Things Fall Apart--fifty years after it was published and "caused a stir for its revelation of something hitherto strange and unfamiliar in the world of literature:...
I shared a panel last week with the author of this piece. His name is Binyavanga Wainaina. He’s a writer and newly appointed director of the Chinua Achebe Center for African Literature and Languages at Bard College. He wrote this satire piece for Granta magazine.
Nigerian master says 'the time has come for Africans to tell their own stories' The celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe is to advise Penguin on a new series of books which aims to publish the very best in African writing. Achebe's own short story collection, Girls at War, will be one of six inaugural books in the Penguin African Writers series, which launches this August and will also include...
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